Apache Felix Framework and Alternative Java VMs

This page is intended to document experiences of running Felix on alternative Java VMs. Currently, the following VMs are included:

• Mika Java Virtual Machine

If you have an experience you would like to contribute or edits/additions to an existing platform, please contribute it.

Mika Java Virtual Machine

Contributed by David Lindelöf.

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mika 
    -Dfelix.config.properties=file:felix.config.properties 
    -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=com.acunia.wonka.net 
    -jar bin/felix.jar

...

The -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=com.acunia.wonka.net option is necessary if you want to do anything URL-related. See here for a full discussion. Basically, we must specify the name of a package containing protocol handlers, which defaults to sun.net.www.protocol. But with Mika this must be set to wonka.net (use com.acunia.wonka.net on older versions of Mika).

We have found this setup to be more than satisfactory in terms of stability, performance and memory usage. We have uncovered several bugs in Mika's class library, but the folks at /k/ have always patched them in a timely manner.

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