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Bug 329487

Summary:	trigger bundle refresh via JMX
Product:	[RT] Virgo	Reporter:	Kostas Kougios <kostas.kougios>
Component:	unknown	Assignee:	Chris Frost <eclipse>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse, glyn.normington, kostas.kougios
Version:	2.1.0.RELEASE
Target Milestone:	3.5.0.RELEASE
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	327538
Bug Blocks:

Description Kostas Kougios

2010-11-04 16:16:09 EDT

Build Identifier: 2.1.0

The pickup directory is a convenient way to deploy bundles during development but you can't specify the orders in which the bundles should be loaded. This results in exceptions thrown if virgo loads bundles in the wrong order from that directory.

Also it is a bit slow because it is periodically scanned: frequent scans means using resources, less frequent scans means the developer will have to wait longer for the bundle to be refreshed.

A way to ease bundle development should be provided:

1. allow plans to point to bundles anywhere in a filesystem : https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=327538

2. virgo should have a method callable via JMX which will take 1 parameter: the full path to the bundle to be refreshed.

#1 will allow virgo to load bundles in the correct order during startup
#2 will allow tools to trigger a bundle refresh whenever required and in the desired order.



Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Kostas Kougios

2010-11-04 16:17:19 EDT

please also look at this forum post:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=199016&start=0&S=28419a9e33d4e6b9f696fec4edd4dd76

Comment 2 Glyn Normington

2010-11-05 11:32:10 EDT

Thanks for raising this Kostas.

Comment 3 Chris Frost

2012-06-22 11:56:09 EDT

Virgo now includes Gemini Management which allows this to be done. Will be available in the next release due out in about a month.