osgi

Is it possible to use a non-osgi library with an OSGi application? For an example, I'm developing a semantic based search engine, and I am using a third party Natural Language Processing library for it ( http://wiki.opencog.org/w/RelEx_Dependency_Relationship_Extractor ). Is it possible to interface such a library which doesn't suport OSGi, as a couple of jar files, with my OSGi application? Piotr As it was written in previous answers you have two options if you want to use additional libraries in your bundles: embedding library jars in a bundle in which it will be used, creating a valid OSGi

Can Spring Boot be used with OSGi? If not, any plans to have an OSGi Spring Boot (Apache Felix or Eclipse Equinox)? In my opinion, cloud applications must be highly modular and updatable like OSGi offers. Yes, it's possible to run Spring Boot apps in OSGI container. First of all, you'll have to switch from Spring Boot jar packaging to OSGI bundle . If you're using Maven you can use org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin for doing that. As Spring Boot dependency jars are not valid OSGI bundles, we should either make them valid bundles with bnd tool or we can embed them into the bundle itself.

Background My Eclipse RCP application is built using Tycho. It consists of multiple components (in the form of OSGi bundles/Eclipse plug-ins). One of these component contains the product file and materializes the product. There is a reactor POM at the application root, which builds all components in order, but I also want to build other components independently (using mvn deploy ) . Building such a single component works as follows: Retrieve the latest versions of all the component's dependencies from our company (p2) repository. Build the component. Deploy the component to our company

Does anyone know of any services that provide OBR for hosting my own Bundles? Something like github - but for bundles. (If not - did anyone ever create their own OBR server, and how hard was it?) EDIT: I found one solution by Nexus Pro , but it seems like its too expensive for mere mortals (as price for pro is nowhere to be seen). SpringSource , Apache Sling , and the OSGi Alliance have repositories and ServiceMix has its own bundles but all are privately maintained with varying levels of public influence. There's an old public repository out there that Richard Hall used to maintain. This is

I decided to build an application on top of OSGI and Karaf - I really like this stuff. However, I'm struggling a bit with a daily deployment on my local, development machine. I mean.. I make a change and then I would like to test it on my local Karaf instance. And it can happen like couple times per hour. The way I'm doing it now is a maven build that creates a JAR bundle and then it's copied into the Karaf's deploy directory. I think that it isn't elegant at all. I was trying to find a way around (google). I read about Karaf's features but it seems that despite the fact that it is a nice

Each bundle in my OSGi project has its own BundleActivator, which I think is normal. This gets passed the current BundleContext, which is useful to have around for getting service references and whatnot. However, from classes in my bundle, how can I get the BundleContext? Assigning it to a public static field in the BundleActivator sucks and passing it around as an argument also sucks. Is there a more intelligent way? Ivan Dubrov You can use FrameworkUtil.getBundle(ClassFromBundle).getBundleContext() . See FrameworkUtil JavaDoc . A good practice when developing OSGi bundles in my opinion is to