Yes, we love building modular web applications, if they just were easier to deploy on a server! Wrapping OSGi applications in WAR files, apparently still the most popular deployment option for RAP, results in a complicated setup: a web app containing an OSGi runtime together with all bundles, configuration, and a bridge servlet that delegates requests to the embedded OSGi - that's hard to build,...
Read MoreThis post is out of date for RAP 1.2 (Galileo). You'll find the most recent deployment instructions here. --- This part is about deploying a RAP application in a .war file. In Part 1 we explored how to deploy a RAP application with Jetty. Part 2: Deploying a Servlet Bridge .war on an Existing Server In this part we will create a .war file containing our application, its...
Read MoreThis post is out of date for RAP 1.2 (Galileo). --- When it comes to deploying your RAP Application you have two options: you can either put the web server inside the OSGi runtime (Equinox + Jetty + RAP + your app) or you can put the OSGi runtime inside an existing server (.war file with the Servlet Bridge + Equinox + RAP + your app). I...
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