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OSGI component support in Service Creation
This wiki is aiming to discuss how to support OSGI based service component development in STP. Johnson Ma, Dec 27, 2007
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Introduction
As more and more Middleware servers becomes OSGI based. We need to support users to create service component in the format of OSGI bundle in an Service Oriented Approach.
We will use ServiceMix 4.0 as a reference SOA runtime here, which is based on Apache Felix OSGI implementation.
Existing OSGI tooling
PDE OSGI tooling support
"Eclipse PDE UI also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development."
Apache Felix integration with Eclipse
Felix integration with eclipse from felix site, is a solution to integrate Felix with Eclipse IDE by
*Check out felix projects into Eclipse workspace *Add the felix.jar to java project's classpath *Create java launch config to run org.apache.felix.main
Spring OSGI Eclipse integration
How to create a Spring OSGI bundle proejct in Eclipse
Setting up Eclipse for Spring Dynamic Modules development
Requirements for OSGI tooling from Service Creation point for view
*Replaceable OSGI runtime:Should define extension point to locate osgi runtime *Easy dependency configuration::Help user to setup dependencies to existing bundle/service loaded in the runtime *Manifest Editor: user friendly manifest editor following OSGI spec. Try to reuse the Manifest editor from PDE here. *Run and Debug support:: *OSGI Console support: should show the osgi console in eclipse
How to create a OSGI service component
How to deploy OSGI component to runtime
There maybe two ways for the deployment: I prepare the WTP based solution. since it can better integrate with SOAS in stp.
Deploy to WTP server
*Define a WTP server extension for OSGI runtime (ServiceMix for example) *Users can start/stop the runtime from WTP server view *Deploy user created osgi bundle to the server
Deploy using PDE
How to test and debug
OSGI Console in eclipse
local console
remote console
User Scenario
Spring meta data editor
The ServiceMix runtime is based on the Spring framework. We should looking into how to help users to create spring configuration --- a Spring metadata editor. (reuse editor from SpringIDE?)