Equinox/Meeting Minutes/20110221

Attendees

• Tom
• John R.
• Ian

Agenda

• Bundle Pools and locking
• OSGi API for R4.3 core.

Bundle Pools

• File level locking on artifacts repositories
• Ian investigated using the Location service to create a new Location
  • does not use the root of eclipse for locking purposes
  • for any operation that updates the artifact repo does a lock and load
  • using file timestamps at the moment. Some issues if there is many fast writes to disk
  • What about reading. Right now only checks timestamp to see if read cache is correct.
    • Do we need to lock here?
  • covered in bug 301903