[equinox-dev] Auto starting/stoping "normal" OSGi bundles on eclipse 3.0

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am attempting to use pre-existing
OSGi bundles with the equinox runtime.  I find that everything seems
to work fine when I install and start a "normal" OSGi bundle
on Equinox.  But when the equinox runtime is shutdown core.runtime
ends up stopping all the bundles.  On next startup my bundles are
still installed but are not active.  I then have to start the bundles
my self again.  This is not expected behavior for "normal"
OSGi bundles.  These bundles expect to be started if they were active
at the time the Framework was shutdown.  Is there a way to prevent
this from happening?  Should there be an eclipse header that runtime
looks for when determining whether a bundle needs auto stopping?  I
think right now it only auto stops bundles that have a Bundle-SymbolicName.

Thomas Watson