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 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 bringing up/shutting down arbitrary services.

https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8542

cheers

-thomas