A little back ground: We are using Apache Felix implementation of OSGI for our web development (Adobe CQ5 which inturn is built on apache felix). We have a few bundles of our own (around 10) and each of them are configured as a project.
Issue: During the development lifecycle, we make changes to a bundle and then use an ant script to create the bundle and deploy it in the felix. I am wondering if there is some way to enable hot deployment of the changes I make during development mode that would save developers time.
Based on my research, we can use the felix file install which will monitor a folder(s) for changes to any bundles and can deploy them automatically. But this again means I need to run ant script to build the jar file and move it to the auto deploy folder the file install is watching. Is there a better/fast way to achieve this? The script is currently taking a around 10 seconds (approx) to compile the classes, create osgi specific meta data files, bundle the classes+metadata in a new jar. Is there some way to do hot deployment, so that any change I make to a java file is automatically reflected in the bundle?
Many thanks
