GUI for Knopflerfish Config Admin

Question

Does anybody know about a GUI for Config Admin of Knopflerfish? What I want to achieve is dynamic configuration management without editting configuration files manually. Is that possible at all? Here OSGI blog I read that

To set Config Admin data, take a look at the Felix Webconsole, Felix FileInstall, or the Knopflerfish environment. They all support a range of (G)UIs to create configuration records.

But I could not find any GUI for Knopflerfish :(

Answer 1

I don't know if you're still interested in this topic, anyway I hope I can help you. What I tried so far are the possibility to change the ConfigAdmin data via:

1. Felix FileInstall (download the bundle from http://felix.apache.org/downloads.cgi) and add it to your init.xargs list of bundles to install and start. Then every modification you make in the pair "properties = value" of the file myBundle.cfg is notified to bundles registered as ManagedService with pid = myBundle. EXPLANATION ADDED FOR COMPLETENESS BUT THIS IS NOT A GUI TOOL!

2. Knopflerfish Console: from here you can enter the "configuration" submenu with "enter configuration", then "list" to see the available configurations with relative pids and "edit pids_name" if you want to change a configuration dynamically. To change a property value use "set property_name value"

3. Felix WebConsole: following this guide you can install the webConsole which allows you to access the properties of your ManagedService via web console at the port 8080 on the localhost (with default configuration). Here how you can see the interface of ConfigAdmin via Felix WebConsole.

I hope it helped to you or omeone else reading in th future.

Andrea