Dynamic service configuration
OSGi provides a standard configuration mechanism called
config admin. This allows the location of configuration information to be decoupled from the code that requires the configuration. Configuration is passed through to services via a Map or Hashtable, and they can configure themselves appropriately.
As with other parts in OSGi, this can also be dynamically updated. When the configuration source changes; an event can flow through to the service or component to allow it to reconfigure itself.
Installing Felix FileInstall
Config admin itself is an OSGi service, and it may be supplied by different configuration agents. The de facto standard is Apache Felix's FileInstall, which can also be used to install bundles into ...
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