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Re: Custom asadmin sub-command questions

From: Ancoron Luciferis <ancoron.luciferis_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:41:07 +0100

On 02/23/2012 09:18 AM, Sahoo wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:31 PM, Ancoron Luciferis wrote:
>> On 02/23/2012 02:39 AM, Sahoo wrote:
>>> No, HK2 does not handle bundle removal or updation very well. It can
>>> handle new bundles getting installed at runtime. So, don't update your
>>> hk2-jar at runtime; instead shutdown the system and restart. It's not a
>>> bug in HK2/OSGi bridge. I doubt we are going to address this - it
>>> requires deep changes in HK2 to refresh its internal objects when
>>> bundles get removed/updated.
>>>
>>> I don't know about the streaming to the console part. That seems like a
>>> question for admin folks.
>>>
>>> Sahoo
>>
>> Hi Sahoo,
>>
>> thank you for the insight.
>>
>> As a workaround, would it be possible to (un-)register HK2 services in
>> a programmatic way from OSGi bundles, e.g. using an activator or an
>> extender?
>>
> You have two choices:
> a) You can use Habitat object to unregister/register yourself HK2 service.
> b) You could also expose your service as OSGi service with a
> component.name service property (set this to the name that you use while
> using looking up the HK2 service) and let it be automatically
> added/removed to/from the HK2 service registry as a named HK2 service.
>
> Sahoo

Ah, thanx again. That's what I was hoping for. :)

Btw. what's the best way to retrieve the habitat?

Cheers,

        Ancoron