Re: [equinox-dev] Migrating Eclipse earlyStartup extenstions to OSGI ds

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Neil. That works nicely.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Neil Bartlett <njbartlett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It looks like the system bundle publishes a service of type
> org.eclipse.osgi.service.environment.EnvironmentInfo. Bind to this in your
> DS component, and then you can get the command line args along with various
> other goodies.
>
> I expect this will be available in any Eclipse application. I should point
> out that in fully-general OSGi, command line args are not always going to be
> available. The command line args are only seen by the 'public static void
> main' of the Java application, and it's the launcher's choice on whether and
> how to expose that information to bundles in OSGi.
>
> Regards,
> Neil
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Friends of OSGi,
>>
>> I'm currently migrating a few earlyStartup actions to OSGI DS services
>> in an Eclipse RCP application.
>>
>> One of the OSGi services needs to have access to the command line
>> arguments.
>>
>> For the earlyStartup extension, this was solved by putting the
>> relevant argument into a system property during the start method of
>> the IApplication implementation.
>>
>> But in our case, the new OSGi service gets started before the
>> IApplication sets the system property.
>>
>> Can I access the launcher arguments within an OSGi service?
>>
>> Best regards, Lars
>>
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