[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Why my bundle is always in state r

[eric.jain@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Jain)]

Oliver Pfau wrote:
> My problem is that the bundles in the folder plugins are always in the 
> state resolved after starting the osgi framework. I have to start them 
> manually. The lazy attribute in the manifest.mf is not set. So according 
> to the spec the bundles should go to the active state. Or I am wrong ? 

I stumbled into this as well, and it turns out bundles are not 
auto-started by default (and neither is there a way to specify that a 
bundle should be auto-started in its manifest).

Some options:

- If you have a .product file, you can list the bundle there with 
autoStart=true.

- Edit the platform's bundles.info file (last value indicates started or 
not).

- Create a p2.inf file in the bundle's META-INF with the following 
contents:

   instructions.configure = 
     setStartLevel(startLevel:4);
     markStarted(started: true);

Note that once a bundle is started (manually or otherwise), the platform 
should remember the state across sessions.