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Re: [equinox-dev] OSGi new startup policies

My guess is that SCA is going to be added to this list as well...


On 2/19/07 5:38 AM, "John Wells" <jwells@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Be careful about assuming that bundles with no activator only provide
> resources.  Bundles using DS or Spring or other IoC technologies
> (especially with the new getBundleContext method on the Bundle) *may*
> offer services even if they do not have an activator.
> 
> 
> John Wells (Aziz)
> jwells@bea.comNOSPAM
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danail Nachev
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 3:44 AM
> To: Equinox development mailing list
> Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] OSGi new startup policies
> 
> I must agree that this is a drastic change. However, I think it won't
> affect most of the bundles and plugins out there, because they already
> have lazy activation policy. The remaining bundles are those that
> provides only resources and doesn't have an activator, so we can
> distinguish them and don't call start() on them. This way I think we
> will keep the backward compatibility.
> 
> Also there are one small group of bundles, which should participate in
> the framework startup. These bundles must be activated persistently. It
> is no problem when you control the platform, but it is a problem when
> you provide your bundles via Update Site, because you have to do magic
> to change the osgi.bundles property and it is ugly solution. Is there
> are a way that this can happen beside the Workbench's IStartup mechanism
> (which is not suitable for all the cases) and osgi.bundles property?
> 
> I realize that this is a rare solution, so I won't argue much about it
> and will look for other solutions.
> 
> Thomas Watson wrote:
>> 
>> I opened the following bugs:
>> 
>> Platform->Update https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174334
>> Equinox->Framework
>> Equinox->https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174335
>> 
>> See comments below:
>> 
>> equinox-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/15/2007 08:45:20 AM:
>> 
>> I'm not sure we want to change the behavior of update to eagerly start
> 
>> bundles which do not define the "lazy" activation policy.  I agree
>> that it may not be a performance issue if the bundles do not have an
>> activator but this is still a pretty drastic change in behavior from
>> before where no bundles were started.  I do agree that
>> update.configurator should at least call
>> start(START_ACTIVATION_POLICY) on bundles that declare a lazy
>> activation policy.  These are for bundles that define the following
>> headers
>> 
>> Eclipse-LazyStart: true
>> Eclipse-LazyStart: false; exceptions=<some package list>
>> Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy
>> 
>> There is also the deprecated Eclipse-AutoStart that is the same as
>> Eclipse-LazyStart
>> 
>> Today this is still working because Equinox has a compatibility
>> setting that is enabled by default to automatically start all bundles
>> with the START_ACTIVATION_POLICY if they define a lazy activation
> policy.
>> That is why lazy activated bundles are able to start even though
>> Bundle.start(START_ACTIVATION_POLICY) was not called.
>> 
>> 
>> We should probably use the same policy as update.configurator here.
>> If 'start' attribute is used the do the normal start(0) otherwise call
> 
>> start(START_ACTIVATION_POLICY) if it is appropriate (i.e. the bundle
>> has a lazy activation policy).
>> 
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