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Bundle Auto-Deploy

To minimize the amount of configuration necessary to install bundles when you launch the framework, the Felix launcher uses the concept of an "auto-deploy" directory. The Felix launcher deploys all bundles in the auto-deploy directory into the framework instance during startup. By default, the auto-deploy directory is "bundle" in the current directory, but it can be specified on the command line like this:

java -jar bin/felix.jar -b /path/to/dir

Specifying an auto-deploy directory replaces the default directory, it does not augment it. The default deployment actions performed on the bundles in the auto-deploy directory are: install, update, and start. Both the location of the auto-deploy directory and the deployment actions performed can be controlled by the following configuration properties, respectively:

• felix.auto.deploy.dir - Specifies the auto-deploy directory from which bundles are automatically deploy at framework startup. The default is the bundle/ directory of the current directory.
• felix.auto.deploy.action - Specifies the auto-deploy actions to be found on bundle JAR files found in the auto-deploy directory. The possible actions are install, update, start, and uninstall. The default value is install, update, and start.

The next section describes how to set and use configuration properties.

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