Comments on: Building Your Equinox OSGi Application Server – Part 3

By: arez

arez — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:06:25 +0000

Very interesting. Is there a possbility to add start level and add auto start features the way it is done in PDE?

By: Luis Carlos Moreira da Costa

Luis Carlos Moreira da Costa — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:23:31 +0000

Thanks for tutorial!

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:05:00 +0000

Ok, why do you always have to stumble with the answer 5 minutes after posting a question that makes you look stupid? Any way, I was deploying in Tomcat, and my webapp was cached under temp. Clearing the temp directory made my bundles available.

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:45:08 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried to follow the steps in part 3, created my own feature and added a single plugin. Added the feature to the product, and exported the product. I can see my plugin in the plugins directory and my feature in the features directory. However, when I start tomcat I can’t see my plugin when i run “ss” from the osgi prompt. Is there anyway to get more debuging?

Thanks a lot,

Andres

By: Andrea Zoppello

Andrea Zoppello — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:39:38 +0000

Hi Scott,

Very nice series…. it help a lot to install and deploy the servlet bridge features.

BTW the approach used in the bridge.war file downlodable from equinox wiki pages use a slightly different approach:

1) The “simple configurator” is not used there
2) In the bridge.war from the wiki pages the “extension bundle” is automatically generated…. why did you choose
a different approach???

BTW i’m also interested too to know how this works under the hood, in particular to understand
how this happens and the detailed steps… from code development to deployments…

Just my two cents but one of the problems with the servlet-bridge is that it use ( in my opinion ) a confusing
packaging schema… so it’s very hard to understand which is the stuff that go in webapp, and which is the equinox
counterpart and how to work…

I’m writing these because i’m trying to implement a solution where i could register in my webapp an an object that let me to call osgi services installed in equinox that are not “servlets” but services that implements my interface “org.myapp.IMyInterface” for example and i’m encountering problems in developments and to setup the build and deployment environment to do that…

Thx
Andrea

By: Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:42:34 +0000

Hi Chris,

Enhancement request created: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=287250

By: Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:40:33 +0000

Scott, can you file an enhancement request for this? I believe it just requires me fixing the validation code in PDE.

I believe right now, you aren’t allowed to change the extension from “.zip” … correct?

By: Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:02:32 +0000

Hello Udo.

RE: having to do these steps after changing java code. If you wish, you can use the dynamic install/update method using p2 as described in the second post…and this makes it unnecessary to rebuild, reexport, rename. If, however, you wish to rebuild the entire app server, then yes the steps are necessary. I’m intent on opening a PDE enhancement request to create a war file directly from within the export wizard (rather than zip). If you would like to do this (open an enhancement request against PDE), please do so

By: Udo

Udo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:50:52 +0000

I have to do these steps (especially the rename job) every time I changed some Java code in one of my bundles?