FYI - something like this has also been implemented in the Weld-OSGi project: https://github.com/mathieuancelin/weld-osgi
Best regards, David On 29 March 2012 16:02, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:01 AM, David Jencks wrote: > >> Getting OWB to work in a plain osgi environment should not be too hard. I >> think the CDI annotation model is a lot better in all ways than blueprint. >> >> I think what's missing is the connection to OSGI services. To be more than >> a self-contained set of components with no relationship to anything outside >> the bundle you need a way to consume osgi services from CDI components and >> expose CDI beans as services. I haven't seen a proposal on how to do this. > > A CDI Extension should be able to export all the services from OSGi into CDI. > The extension could easily export too, if you wanted. > > Rick Hightower wrote a bi-directional CDI/Spring bridge using that technique. > Should be illuminating for bridging OSGi and CDI: > > http://rick-hightower.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-meet-cdi-cdi-meet-spring.html > > > -David > >> >> On Mar 25, 2012, at 3:13 AM, Christian Schneider wrote: >> >>> Found a newer thread. >>> http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/OSGi-Work-td4223311.html >>> >>> Seems a lot has improved since the first thread I found. I will try to get >>> this running and report on what I have found. Perhaps Charles can also >>> comment on this as he seems to be one of the drivers behind the efforts on >>> the openejb side. I am not sure if he watches this list. I will also ask on >>> the openejb list. >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> Am 25.03.2012 12:04, schrieb Christian Schneider: >>>> That would be ideal of course. Does anyone know if openejb could be used >>>> for this? >>>> >>>> I found this page which shows how to use openejb in OSGi: >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/OPENEJB/osgi-openejb.html >>>> >>>> and I found an interesting thread: >>>> http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/OpenEJB-and-OSGi-td981781.html#a981782 >>>> >>>> So this sounds like it would work but not that nicely. You have to require >>>> the openejb bundle and you have to use an Activator. >>>> Ideally I would like this to work like blueprint. Where you have an >>>> extender that finds the trigger (META-INF/beans.xml) and initializes the >>>> bundle accordingly. >>>> Additionally it seems that openejb seems to have some dependencies on >>>> eclipse RCP bundles which is not good for a server deployment. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Christian Schneider >>> http://www.liquid-reality.de >>> >>> Open Source Architect >>> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com >>> >> >
