I am upgrading our Equinox from 4.7.3a to 4.21 in our server application. I have learned the hard way that org.eclipse.update.configurator no longer does automatically install bundles on application startup (1). It seems my choices are either start using p2 repositories or start using SimpleConfigurator. SimpleConfigurator seems easier to implement in my case.
One thing I do not understand, what does SimpleConfigurator offer me over just enumerating all bundles in osgi.bundles property? It requires bundles.info file anyway which is also a static list of bundles. I will have to generate the bundles list one way or another. Can I do away with any configurator?