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Eclipse is OSGi Based, but requires reboots...? [message #91292]

Thu, 28 June 2007 02:36

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: carlushenry.gmail.com

One of the attractions that I have to OSGi is the concept that you do
not have to restart an application if you want to modify it. I have
done this while playing with OSGi. However, if Eclipse is based on
OSGi, then why does it require a reboot when you add a new plugin / bundle?

Thanks
Carlus

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Re: Eclipse is OSGi Based, but requires reboots...? [message #91306 is a reply to message #91292]

Thu, 28 June 2007 05:25

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

It doesn't need it; there's an "apply changes" that you can do to install it dynamically. However, historically (i.e. before 3.0) it's not been possible to do that. Some plugins also don't work because they're not set up to be dynamic; the 'New' wizard was one of them IIRC.

Summary: it can work, it just doesn't always. That's why they still have the 'restart', and it's the default. YMMV.

Alex.

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Re: Eclipse is OSGi Based, but requires reboots...? [message #91336 is a reply to message #91292]

Thu, 28 June 2007 22:59

Pascal Rapicault

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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Because:
- writing dynamic bundles is complex
- the IDE represented a large code base when we introduced osgi and we did
not had time to make everything dynamic - the advantage of making the whole
SDK dynamic was not clear. Note that since the workbench is dynamic you can
drop most plug-ins hit "apply now" and things will work

Note that the RCP subset (and a few other bundles commonly used in RCP) is
dynamic.

PaScaL

"Carlus Henry" <carlushenry@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One of the attractions that I have to OSGi is the concept that you do not
> have to restart an application if you want to modify it. I have done this
> while playing with OSGi. However, if Eclipse is based on OSGi, then why
> does it require a reboot when you add a new plugin / bundle?
>
> Thanks
> Carlus

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