[FELIX-2182] An improved "list" command implementation that correctly displays Spring column status

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: karaf-1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: karaf-1.4.0
• Component/s: Karaf
• Environment: Felix OSGi container -- Karaf OSGi Shell.
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Oren Livne
• Created: 08/Mar/10 19:00
• Updated: 17/May/10 12:25
• Resolved: 17/May/10 12:25

Description

Dear All,

I'm lead developer of the FURTHeR (Federated Utah Research &
Translational Health e-Repository) project at the Biomedical Informatics
Department at the University of Utah, whose purpose is to develope
cutting edge infrastructure for clinical and translational sciences. You
can read more about our project at http://dev-app.further.utah.edu/portal

We are using FUSE 4.2.0 that builds on top of Apache Felix - Karaf 1.4.0
as our ESB solution. We have encountered a known bug in felix: the
spring column is almost never populated upon restarting the bus. This
makes it hard for us to know when we break bundles, and forces us to
refresh them many times. See also

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1717
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1995

Attached please find a zipped maven project with a custom command that
is almost identical to the standard "osgi:list", but when installed,
does display spring status correctly upon bus restart. Other
improvements to the original code (refactoring + using Spring.format())
have also been incorporated, which might help improve future Karaf versions.

Sincerely,
Oren Livne