Programatic admin deployment

[drudman]

Hi,
I want to write a client program which will perform an Admin deployment of a bundle through the admin console. Basically I want to perform the same HTTP POST that the admin console deploy.htm web page does, except I want to do it from my client program. I have not been successful in figuring out how I should invoke this and have not found any documentation. What do I write out to the POST output?

Any pointer to documentation or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Andy Wilkinson]

Rather than trying to simulate what the admin console does, which is likely to be quite brittle as it's not a defined interface, I would consider using the Deployer MBean and a JMX client instead. Starting dm Server and attaching JConsole to it is probably the easiest way to see what operations this MBean has to offer.