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