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33<H1><A name="WhiteBoardPatternHandler-Thewhiteboardpatternhandler"></A>The white board pattern handler</H1>
34<P>The objective of this handler is to simplify the development of white-board architecture. This architecture-style is based is very close to the extender architecture style but use services instead of bundles.<BR>
35A whiteboard is based on two different roles:</P>
36<UL class="alternate" type="square">
37 <LI>A consumer looking to special services or a services published with a special mark</LI>
38 <LI>Looked services</LI>
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42<P>More information on this pattern is available in this <SPAN class="nobr"><A href="http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/Links/whiteboard.pdf" title="Visit page outside Confluence" rel="nofollow">document<SUP><IMG class="rendericon" src="../../cwiki.apache.org/confluence/images/icons/linkext7.gif" height="7" width="7" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"></SUP></A></SPAN><BR>
43Implementing a white board pattern could be complex as the extender needs to track these services dynamically. Indeed looked services can be highly dynamic; they can arrive, leave or be modified at runtime.<BR>
44Several services specified in the OSGi specification use white board pattern such as the Device Access Manager.</P>
45<H2><A name="WhiteBoardPatternHandler-Usingthehandler"></A>Using the handler</H2>
46<P>First of all, you need to configure the component type to use the handler such as:</P>
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48<PRE class="code-xml"><SPAN class="code-tag">&lt;ipojo <SPAN class="code-keyword">xmlns:wbp</SPAN>=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;org.apache.felix.ipojo.white-board-pattern&quot;</SPAN>&gt;</SPAN>
49 &lt;component
50 className=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;org.apache.felix.ipojo.test.FooWhiteBoardPattern&quot;</SPAN>
51 &gt;
52 &lt;wbp:wbp
53 filter=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;(my.property=1)&quot;</SPAN>
54 onArrival=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;onArrival&quot;</SPAN>
55 onDeparture=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;onDeparture&quot;</SPAN>
56 onModification=<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;onModification&quot;</SPAN>
57 /&gt;
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59 <SPAN class="code-tag">&lt;provides/&gt;</SPAN>
60 <SPAN class="code-tag">&lt;/component&gt;</SPAN></PRE>
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62<P>Notice that, this handler is an external handler. So, it uses the &quot;org.apache.felix.ipojo.white-board-patter&quot; namespace.<BR>
63Once described, you can implement your component. The methods specified methods will be called when a matching services arrives or leaves or are modified. The modification callback is optional. A matching service is detected by confronting the service reference against the specified filter.<BR>
64The filter can target specific service interface (with the objectclass property) or property values.<BR>
65In the previous example, these methods could be: </P>
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67<PRE class="code-java"><SPAN class="code-keyword">public</SPAN> class FooWhiteBoardPattern <SPAN class="code-keyword">implements</SPAN> Observable {
68 List list = <SPAN class="code-keyword">new</SPAN> ArrayList();
69 <SPAN class="code-object">int</SPAN> modifications = 0;
70 <SPAN class="code-keyword">public</SPAN> <SPAN class="code-keyword">synchronized</SPAN> void onArrival(ServiceReference ref) {
71 list.add(ref);
72 }
73 <SPAN class="code-keyword">public</SPAN> <SPAN class="code-keyword">synchronized</SPAN> void onDeparture(ServiceReference ref) {
74 list.remove(ref);
75 }
76 <SPAN class="code-keyword">public</SPAN> <SPAN class="code-keyword">synchronized</SPAN> void onModification(ServiceReference ref) {
77 modifications = modifications + 1;
78 }
79 <SPAN class="code-keyword">public</SPAN> <SPAN class="code-keyword">synchronized</SPAN> Map getObservations() {
80 Map map = <SPAN class="code-keyword">new</SPAN> HashMap();
81 map.put(<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;list&quot;</SPAN>, list);
82 map.put(<SPAN class="code-quote">&quot;modifications&quot;</SPAN>, <SPAN class="code-keyword">new</SPAN> <SPAN class="code-object">Integer</SPAN>(modifications));
83 <SPAN class="code-keyword">return</SPAN> map;
84 }</PRE>
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86<P>All method received the arriving, leaving or modified service reference.</P>
87<H2><A name="WhiteBoardPatternHandler-Configuration"></A>Configuration</H2>
88<P>The handler has only three mandatory attributes:</P>
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90 <LI>Filter: filter use to discover matching filter.</LI>
91 <LI>onArrival: declaring the method to invoke when a matching service arrives</LI>
92 <LI>onDeparture: declaring the method to invoke when a matching service leaves</LI>
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96<P>The onModification attribute is optional. This method is called when an injected service reference is modified but stills valid against the filter.</P>
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98<P>The implementation will be notified of arrivals, modifications and departures, despite the instance is invalid. Indeed, the implementation must release all objects created from another bundle as soon it leaves.</P></TD></TR></TABLE>
99<H2><A name="WhiteBoardPatternHandler-Download"></A>Download</H2>
100<P>The handler is available on the <A href="download.html" title="Download">download</A> page.<BR>
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