And for my next trick

Just for fun and to demonstrate the power of the Posh (sh)ell environment I decided to knock together the following trivial script to do a "traditional" OSGi bundle file install from a directory:

// create a temporary array for storing ids
array = new java.util.ArrayList;

// iterate over the files passed 
// in as arguement 1 to this script
each (glob $1/*) {

  // use the BundleContext.installBundle 
  // method to install each bundle
  id=osgi:installBundle $it;

  // store the bundle id for start later
  $array add $id;
};

// iterate over our installed bundles
each ($array) {
  // use the BundleContext.start method
  //to start it
  osgi:start $it;
};

To try this out for yourself or to find out more about Nimble you look here once installed you can run the above script using the following command:

posh -k http://chronological-thought.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/nimble-examples/file-install.osh <your bundles dir>

Where you should replace <your bundles dir> with a path to a directory on your local file system that contains bundles.

Hmmm what to blog next...ponders...

Laters,