Folks,
I wrapped the new ServiceContainer.dumpServices() functionality in an MBean.
You can now point jconsole to 'jboss:ServiceContainer' to get access to this management inferface
public interface ManagedServiceContainer {
List<String> listServices();
List<String> listServicesByMode(String mode);
List<String> listServicesByState(String state);
void setMode(String serviceName, String mode);
}
Besides providing general state information on registered services, this also allows to set the mode on a given service controller. Hence, it can be used to bring up ON_DEMAND services for example.
With the OSGi integration we were looking for a solution that allows us to bring up the OSGi subsystem triggered by an external provisioning system ( e.g. our hudson testsuite). One obvious approach would have been to copy a dummy bundle into the 'deployments' folder, which would trigger an OSGi deployment. Another second approach would have been to register a dummy FrameworkMBean that would allow bundle installation. That MBean would than have to be replaced by its propper implementation that we currently get from Apache Aries.
I figured however that this would be a general problem of bringinup/shutting down arbitrary services.
https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8542
cheers
-thomas