Hello Simon,
On Oct 6, 2006, at 9:44 , Simon Willnauer wrote:
I read a lot about felix and OSGi and I actually can not wait to
use it. I'm
planing to integrate the OSGi system into another apache project
(Lucene
GDataServer) but have no experience with it so far. I was looking
for some
"Getting Started" or examples tutorials to get into the framework
or how to
integrate all the features OSGi / Felix offers. I got to the
documentation
part of the website and tried to read the Felix OSGi Tutorial (
http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/felix-osgi-tutorial.html) and I had
to login,
so I registered and logged in but I got no permission to read it. I
would
love to read this part of the documentation, can anyone of you tell
me how
;).
If any of you have some more documentation / tutorial hints for me
I would
really appreciate it.
Okay, first of all, the current list of documentation and tutorials
on the site is still very much a work in progress. Admittedly it is
not very complete at the moment.
You can start here:
http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/introduction-to-osgi.html
Also, check out the following links for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi
http://www.osgi.org/documents/osgi_technology/osgi-sp-overview.pdf
http://www.aqute.biz/osgi.html
http://www.aqute.biz/workshops.html
http://www.aqute.biz/resources/OSGI-short.pdf
http://www.knopflerfish.org/programming.html
http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/tutorial/index.html
http://www.osgi.org/news_events/articles.asp?section=4
http://www.osgi.org/news_events/documents/
AutoManageServiceDependencies_byMOffermans.pdf
http://www.osgi.org/documents/osgi_technology/whiteboard.pdf
No doubt others can add some more links to this list, and I think we
should start adding them to the Felix site. As you can see, a lot of
information is not Felix specific at all and that's a good thing
because it should not (and does not) matter which framework you choose.
Also, feel free to ask more questions on this list.
Are there any OpenSource projects around using Felix so far?
There are quite a few projects at least experimenting with Felix at
the moment. From the top of my head, some of them are: Apache
Directory Project, Spring, Cocoon, Jpox, James, Tuscany and Geronimo.
I'm deliberately saying "experimenting with" because Felix still has
to do its first official release, even thought the consensus is that
the framework is very stable.
Greetings, Marcel
