Re: [equinox-dev] Creating and Starting a BundleActivator when the frame

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Another area of interest here is the conversation I had with Tom Watson
at 
> EclipseCon. We were brainstorm ways to get Declarative Services registered
> for bundles which were not started. While there are many details to
work 
> out, the basic idea was for the framework to mark lazy start bundles
in 
> the STARTING state rather than just the RESOLVED state. This would
(a) 
> allow them to still avoid having a class loader and (b) allow SCR
to 
> register their declarative services since they are technically started.
> More thinking is needed here though. These bundles woudl stay in the
> STARTING state until a class was loaded from them. This could occur
for 
> any reason including SCR trying to load the implementation class for
a 
> declarative service once it was used by some other bundle. This would
> allow bundles to be installed and provide service without having to
be 
> explicitly started. I think this is something interesting to pursue
for 
> 3.3.

I opened bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=135885
to investigate this for 3.3.

Tom.

> 
> BJ Hargrave
> Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
> OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance
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