[equinox-dev] [DS] Unexplained Component Deactivation

[Andrew Teirney <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After seeing a bug report recently regarding unnecessary deactivation
of components I decided to delve further into an issue I have had for
sometime. The problem being that sometimes for no apparent reason
(well that i could figure out at the time) during programmatic service
registrations some DS components would be deactivated during what
would i would consider a normal osgi framework startup.

The results of my findings are located on the bug ticket
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278732

If anyone else has the time it would be appreciated if you can
replicate the deactivation issue pointed to in the sample i have
provided (you may need to start up the osgi framework multiple times
to see it appear), i have reproduced it on several machines many
times, but since they are effectively the same hardware/os it doesn't
say much.

I also have a experimental patch that i believe catches all the cases
I have come across.

Any thoughts, feedback would be appreciated.

CU,
Andrew