Replication from an OSGI bundle - help

Question

I am an OSGI newb!
I create a custom WorkflowProcess that is called from a WorkflowLauncher when a certain node gets created on the Author instance.  The WorkflowProcess needs to replicate the node structure onder this node to the publisher.  
I am having problems using the Replicator from the WorkflowProcess in the OSGI bundle.  I am not about to instantiate an instance of  com.day.cq.replication.Replicator.  I have tried using the @Reference annotation, but at runtime the replicator is null.  I have seen suggestions of using the Sling on the front end but that is not what I am looking for. 
So my questions are:
1.) How do I get an instance of  com.day.cq.replication.Replicator from inside a WorkflowProcess (WorkflowSession)?
2.) Can I use Sling in the bundle?
3.) Is there an easier way to do this?
4.) Can I programmatically connect to the Publish server from my WorkflowSession and create the nodes with jcr?
Thanks.

Answer 1

The code to manually trigger replicator would look somewhat like this:
import javax.jcr.Session;
import com.day.cq.replication.Replicator;
import org.apache.sling.jcr.api.SlingRepository;
@Reference
private Replicator replicator;
@Reference
private SlingRepository repository;
try{
     Session session = repository.loginAdministrative(null);
     replicator.replicate(session, ReplicationActionType.ACTIVATE, path);
finally{
     if (session != null){
          session.logout();
          session = null;