How to use OSGi bundle services dynamically

From:
 Schwede <chris@cruehl.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:44:07 -0000
Message-ID:
<1193661847.195299.206730@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>
hi all,

i have a little problem here finding out how to use registered
services in OSGi.

what i am doing is the followig:

- register/provide services with
                         context.registerService(... , ... , null);
in each of the "service providing" Activator classes (means: the
bundles)

- set up a "managing" bundle with a ServiceListener in the Activator
class
                         m_context.addServiceListener(this);
that (un)registers provided services on-the-fly.

now i have implemented my serviceChanged method like below

    public void serviceChanged(ServiceEvent event)
    {
        try
        {
            String[] objectClass = (String[])
event.getServiceReference().getProperty("objectClass");

            if (event.getType() == ServiceEvent.REGISTERED)
            {
                System.out.println("Service " + objectClass[0] + " registered.");
            }
            else if (event.getType() == ServiceEvent.UNREGISTERING)
            {
                System.out.println("Service " + objectClass[0] + "
unregistered.");
            }
            else if (event.getType() == ServiceEvent.MODIFIED)
            {
                System.out.println("Ex1: Service of type " + objectClass[0] + "
modified.");
            }
        }
        catch(RuntimeException re)
        {
            System.out.println("RuntimeException :: " + re.getMessage());
            System.out.println(re.getStackTrace());
        }
    }

here is a rather nice tutorial (even though i do not use felix/
knopflerfish - i am using Eclipse/Equinox) that shows an example on
how to get use of a registered service from another bundle:
http://www.knopflerfish.org/osgi_service_tutorial.html#best

now my question is: how do i dynamically "use" my services? right now
it seems to me that on the one hand i can (un)register services on-the-
fly but on the other i always have to make sure that the service i
want to use is currently registered. this sounds like i have to use a
hell of a lot if-clauses or switch-case... at least if i am following
that tutorial from above.

for example I have a bundle providing a xml validation service and a
xml parsing service. another bundle is just for logging purpose and so
on...

how would you implement a project like this? is it even useful to have
a "managing bundle" or should i add a ServiceListener to each of my
providing bundles to share funcionality under each other.

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