Wiring a prototype in blueprint

Question

Like Spring, blueprint supports the prototype scope. But unlike Spring I can\'t see any documentation about how to use it.

In Spring you can ask the context to give you

Answer 1

BlueprintContainer.getComponentInstance() does exactly what you are looking for.

osgi documentation:

A Blueprint Container represents the managed state of a Blueprint bundle. A Blueprint Container provides access to all managed components. These are the beans, services, and service references. A Blueprint Container can be obtained by injecting the predefined "blueprintContainer" component id.

Example

blueprint.xml:

MyService.java:

// ...
// create new instance
MyPrototype myPrototype = 
     (MyPrototype) container.getComponentInstance("myPrototype");

pom.xml:

  org.apache.aries.blueprint
  org.apache.aries.blueprint.core
  1.3.0