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The OSGI Bundles portlet displays the installed OSGi Bundles by different groups and their status in the table under the installation area. You can start, stop and uninstall the bundles listed in this table.

The table includes four main the following sections:

  1. Id: This column displays the bundle Id which is unique for each bundle. The bundles in the table are sorted according to the ascending order of their Ids. This listing order complies with the starting order of the bundles. The bundles with smaller start levels tend to have smaller Id numbers.
  2. Symbolic Name: This column displays the Symbolic Name of each bundle. This attribute is set by the Bundle-SymbolicName header in the MANIFEST.MF file in the bundle.
  3. Version: This column displays the version of each bundle, which is set by the Bundle-Version header in the MANIFEST.MF file in the bundle.
  4. State: This column displays the state of each bundle.
    • Bundles that are started are shown as Active. You can stop the bundle with the following steps by using the Stop button:.
    • Bundles that are stopped are shown as Resolved. You can start the bundle with the following steps by using the Start button:

Steps for managing the installed bundles in the table:

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  1. Utilities: This column displays the actions you can perform to view different information of each bundle
  2. Select the check box of the bundle that you want to take action on.
  3. Click Start, Stop, or Uninstall according to your specific action.

Viewing the information of OSGi Bundles

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The following are actions listed within Utilities column, and which you can perform to view the information of each bundle:

  1. Click View Manifest to see the content of the MANIFEST.MF file of the bundle. This file contains headers that specify information that the server Framework needs to install correctly and activate a bundle. Such information includes: Import-Package, Export-Packages, Bundle-SymbolicName, Bundle-Version, and so on.

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  1. Click View wired bundles to see which bundles those imported packages are from and which bundles are using exported packages from the current one.
    # Click View services to see the services that the bundle is using and that the bundle has registered with the Framework.

For more information about the OSGi Bundles, see the OSGi Specifications.