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Difference between revisions of "Virgo/Community/Migrating from 3.0.x to 3.5.0"

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Revision as of 12:03, 13 February 2012

Modified Directory Layout

Virgo's distributions will have a slightly modified directory layout from 3.5.0 onwards. It closely matches an Eclipse-like directory layout. This enables us to seamlessly provide p2 initial provisioning support to all Virgo distributions. The documentation will be thoroughly updated with all changes and the configuration impact on the server.

The main differences are:

  • relocated Virgo configuration directory (from /config to /configuration)
  • relocated Equinox configuration folder(from /work/osgi/configuration to /configuration) - this is where the framework stores its caches and other bundle data
  • relocated lib/kernel folder(from /lib/kernel to /plugins)
  • relocated java6-server.profile (from /lib to /configuration)

As as result all configuration files are now located in a single directory - /configuration This also brings changes to the OSGi configuration of the server previously found in lib/org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.launch.properties. It is now contained in the standard for Equinox config.ini file in the /configuration directory.

New Default Launcher

Equinox launcher is now the default Virgo Launcher. The consequences of this change are covered in Virgo's user guide in chapter 7 and chapter 7.8 cover the new launcher alone. Most of the startup options remain the same. Different are some of the options that the launcher can accept. The new ones provide means to configure a lot of the framework's internals right from the start.

A full list of the options that the Equinox Launcher recognizes is available at help.eclipse.org

Transformer Signature

Transformer services in Virgo 3.5.0 operate in terms of a directed acyclic graph of install artefacts instead of the tree which was used by Virgo 3.0.x.

If you provide a Transformer service, you'll need to rework it to implement the modified signature. For example, the WebTransformer.transform method was changed as follows:

public void transform(GraphNode<InstallArtifact> installGraph, InstallEnvironment installEnvironment) throws DeploymentException {
 installGraph.visit(new ExceptionThrowingDirectedAcyclicGraphVisitor<InstallArtifact, DeploymentException>() {

     public boolean visit(GraphNode<InstallArtifact> node) throws DeploymentException {
             InstallArtifact installArtifact = node.getValue();
             ...
     }
 });
}

Custom Logback Appenders

This will apply once bug 362095 is implemented.

Fragments containing custom Logback appenders now need to specify:

Fragment-Host: com.springsource.ch.qos.logback.classic

or (if you use the LogBack bundle from Orbit):

Fragment-Host: ch.qos.logback.classic

instead of:

Fragment-Host: org.eclipse.virgo.medic.core

Also note that the medic core bundle now sets logback.ignoreTCL to "true" in order to avoid an obscure classloading error in some tests. See bug 362095 for details.

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