Introspection and Architecture

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The architecture feature allows obtaining an architectural / component view of your systems. It exposes a snapshot of the present instances & factories, the state of these instances ...
Moreover, ; iPOJO defines an 'arch' command displaying this architecture in Felix. You need to install the arch command bundle available in the Felix trunk.

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The architecture feature does "reflection" on the iPOJO containers. It gathers information about the component (state, class name ...), requirement (state, multiple, optional ...), provided services (state, properties) ... Each handler can participate to the architecutrearchitecture. This information allows you to know why a an instance does not start, or why the component does not publish / provide a service.

Metadata

To allow the architecture to introspect the containerThe architecture (i.e. instance introspection) is activated by default. To disable it, you need to add a an attribute "architecture=truefalse" to the component element:

<Component className="fr.imag.adele.escoffier.hello.impl.HelloServiceImpl" architecture="

false">

By default, the architecture feature is disabledenabled.

The "arch" command

A Felix command comes with the architecture handler. This command looks for all component exposing the architecture and print the information.

arch => displays instances name & state (equivalent to arch \-instances)

arch \-instance $instance_name => displays complete information about the instance $instance_name

arch \-factories => display the list of available factories

arch \-factory $factory_name => display complete information about the factory $factory_name

Technical information

In fact, when a component enables the architecture introspection, its container exposes an Architecture service. Any architecture requester can obtain information about the componentinstance. For example, the arch command request requests all the architecture service services and print prints the information.