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Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development

You're reading from   Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development Build modular applications on Eclipse by defining custom extension points and using OSGi services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287796
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Registering a service programmatically


To register a service, an instance of the implementation class needs to be created and registered with the framework. Interactions with the framework are performed with an instance of BundleContext—typically provided in the BundleActivator.start method and stored for later use. The *FeedParser classes from the previous chapter will be extended to support registration as a service instead of the Equinox extension registry.

Creating an activator

A bundle's activator is a class that is instantiated and coupled to the lifetime of the bundle. When a bundle is started, if a manifest entry Bundle-Activator exists, then the corresponding class is instantiated. As long as it implements the BundleActivator interface, the start method will be called. This method is passed as an instance of BundleContext, which is the bundle's connection to the hosting OSGi framework.

Create a class in the com.packtpub.e4.advanced.feeds project called com.packtpub.e4.advanced.feeds...

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