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Bundle/Plugin redeploy on save [message #646392]

Thu, 23 December 2010 16:47

J Sampson

Messages: 1
Registered: December 2010

Junior Member

My apologies if this has been asked and answered, but my searches have uncovered topics primarily related to either SpringSource of Virgo, and nothing specific to tooling or equinox/PDE specifically.

I'm trying to determine if it's possible to have the PDE (or some other eclipse functionality), automatically redeploy an OSGI bundle when I update/save java classes.

I've created a target platform which contains primarily equinox osgi bundles, and I have a very simple plugin-project based on the OSGI Simple LogService example. I can launch and refresh my bundle, but I'd like to set it to auto-refresh when I update any code.

I know that p2 can support a scanned directory, but my goal is to avoid the compile/package/deploy cycle when in the IDE. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Bundle/Plugin redeploy on save [message #646495 is a reply to message #646392]

Sat, 25 December 2010 15:16

Michael Pellaton

Messages: 289
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi

AFAIK there is no OSGi-level mechnism or PDE tooling for that.

However, if you run your application from Eclipse in debug mode,
hot code replacement should do the "refresh" you want. This works
only for java classes and even then not for all operations and the
Eclipse debugger lets you know when it thinks that a restart is
required.

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, you can use Java Rebel
which eliminates most of the required restarts. However, if you
change anything in the bundle manifest or most other non-java
resource, it won't help neither.

HTH
Michael

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