Yes exactly. OSGi never automatically starts bundles. Start level n merely means that the bundle cannot start until the framework reaches that level, even if the Bundle.start method is invoked.
-- Neil Bartlett Sent from a phone On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 15:08, Benson Margulies wrote: > I have a container that I've installed some bundles into. > > One of them has an activator. If I enumerate the bundles, I see this > bundle, I see that it has a persistent start level of 1. I start up Felix, > with the framework start level set to 1. My bundle's activator is not > called. > > Do I in fact have to iterate my bundles calling 'start' even if they have > persistent start levels? > > > > Bnd-LastModified 1420814804179 > Build-Jdk 1.7.0_72 > Built-By Basis Technology Corp. > Bundle-Activator com.basistech.rosette.osgi.impl.BusActivator > Bundle-Description Define the api to a component. > Bundle-DocURL http://basistech.com > Bundle-ManifestVersion 2 > Bundle-Name rosette-osgi-api > Bundle-SymbolicName com.basistech.osgi.rosette-osgi-api > Bundle-Vendor Basis Technology Corp. > Bundle-Version 0.0.4.SNAPSHOT > Created-By Apache Maven Bundle Plugin > Export-Package > com.basistech.rosette.osgi;version="0.0.4";uses:="com.basistech.rosette, > com.basistech.rosette.dm,org.osgi.framework" > Implementation-Title rosette-osgi-api > Implementation-Vendor Basis Technology Corp. > Implementation-Vendor-Id com.basistech.osgi > Implementation-Version 0.0.4-SNAPSHOT > Import-Package com.basistech.rosette,com.basistech.rosette.dm > ;version="[1.10,2)",com.basistech.rosette.osgi;version="[0.0,1)",com.fasterxml.jackson.core;version="[2.4,3)",com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type;version="[2.4,3)",com.fasterxml.jackson.databind;version="[2.4,3)",com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node;version="[2.4,3)",com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml;version="[2.4,3)",com.google.common.base;version="[16.0,17)",com.google.common.collect;version="[16.0,17)", > com.google.common.io > ;version="[16.0,17)",org.osgi.framework;version="[1.7,2)",org.slf4j;version="[1.7,2)" > Manifest-Version 1.0 > Require-Capability osgi.ee;filter:="(&(osgi.ee=JavaSE)(version=1.6))" > Tool Bnd-2.4.0.201411031534 > Start level: 1 > >
