>
>  Will you please notify us on the other parts via mailing list as well?


I have just finished the second part:
https://everitorg.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/how-do-you-use-osgi-part-2/

Thanks again for the answers!

Balazs


On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 6:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is great, thank you for the work ,)
>
> Imust admit I was not quite clear what questions you wanted to answer for
> your own projects, but seeing the answers it is certainly usefull on its
> own. Will you please notify us on the other parts via mailing list as well?
>
> I wonder if that would be a nice project for the OSGi consortium to
> prepare and conduct a community survey. It has become quiet about OSGi, a
> widely distributed survey and result could get some traction back.
>
> Bernd
>
> --
> http://bernd.eckenfels.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Balázs Zsoldos" <[email protected]>
> To: OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Do., 26 Mai 2016 18:17
> Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] How do you use OSGi?
>
> Hi,
>
> I see that a question form with some simple question motivated people to
> write 35 emails on this thread. I am euphoric to see that as these
> discussions can be very useful for others, too. For me, they were useful.
>
> I started to write an e-mail with the summary of responses, but it got too
> long. I wanted to attach pictures, but I think they would not be shown in
> mailing list archives. I do not know how others are with it, but I like
> short texts with pictures :).
>
> Therefore, I split the content into 2-3 parts and release it as a series of
> blog posts. The first one is here:
> https://everitorg.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/how-do-you-use-osgi-part-1/
>
> Kind regards,
> *Balázs*
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's a good approach. We use the same approach in camel-blueprint-test to
> > "fake" OSGi services (as describe here:
> >
> http://blog.nanthrax.net/2014/08/testing-utest-and-itest-apache-camel-blueprint-route/
> )
> > However, it's a bit "limited" compared to a full OSGi framework.
> >
> > I like what you did to show that we can "embed" OSGi applications in
> > spring-boot.
> > Another interesting approach would be to show how to embed the OSGi
> > framework or container (Karaf Minimal/Static/Main) in spring-boot too. Or
> > even better showing how to use karaf-boot to do it for us.
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> >
> > On 05/25/2016 09:12 AM, Christian Schneider wrote:
> >
> >> Yes .. pojosr (connect) works quite nicely. I even managed to bridge to
> >> the world of spring-boot now.
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/cschneider/decanter-docker/tree/master/spring-boot-starter-decanter
> >>
> >> In this module I define a spring boot extension for Karaf Decanter. It
> >> starts a minimal decanter inside a spring boot application.
> >>
> >> Basically the idea is to forward all log informations (later also JMX
> >> beans) into an embedded decanter that can then be configured to forward
> >> the logs
> >> using any protocol decanter supports. In my case it forwards to a kafka
> >> broker. There a full scale decanter picks up the logs, processes them
> >> and forwards to ES.
> >>
> >> In the spring boot app you can then define a logger that forwards the
> >> logs into decanter using EventAdmin.
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/cschneider/decanter-docker/blob/master/taskservice/src/main/resources/logback.xml
> >>
> >> I was quite surprised that I was able to reuse the normal decanter
> >> bundles including config handling and DS without any changes.
> >> This is very helpful as it allows to reuse OSGi code that has to run
> >> inside a non OSGi application for some reason.
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
> >>
> >> On 25.05.2016 08:42, Peter Kriens wrote:
> >>
> >>> In PojoSR and thus I assume you can install, start, and stop bundles.
> >>> You cannot update, resolve, or uninstall for obvious reasons. It is
> >>> uncannily close to a real framework :-)
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> Peter Kriens
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 24 mei 2016, at 23:43, Neil Bartlett
> >>>> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 24 May 2016, at 21:57, Christian Schneider
> >>>>> <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 24.05.2016 21:02, Scott Lewis wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yeah you can do this, but my observation is that very few are.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I would also suggest that the classes/API in the launch package
> >>>>>> (e.g. BundleFinder) are/would be essential [1], as launch
> >>>>>> configuration is extremely important to address more than a few use
> >>>>>> cases.   Actually, I also think that some standard config
> >>>>>> properties (e.g. BundleFinder impls, or specific bundles to be
> >>>>>> added/started on startup) would be useful, but I haven't thought
> >>>>>> that through yet.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I agree. A big part is finding and selecting the bundles to start.
> >>>>> This is not covered by FrameworkFactory.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I’m confused, are you still talking about Connect? In Connect, you
> >>>> cannot install, update or uninstall bundles, because that would
> >>>> require the full OSGi lifecycle and classloaders. Instead, Connect
> >>>> automatically gives you ersatz bundles representing JARs on the
> >>>> classpath. You can, however, start and stop these bundles because
> >>>> that only requires setting a flag and calling a callback (they are
> >>>> all started by default when the framework starts).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Another interesting part would be a kind of health check.
> >>>>> When I start a feature or bundles in karaf I can use the shell to
> >>>>> introspect if the bundles are all resolved and start correctly and
> >>>>> which DS components are started and which are not.
> >>>>> For embedded OSGi where you typically do not have a shell it would
> >>>>> be great to have some configureable health checks that tell you if
> >>>>> something might be wrong in your setup.
> >>>>> One example would be that I expect that all bundles are started and
> >>>>> all DS components come up. I am not sure if this requires an API
> >>>>> though. It could simply be a bundle.
> >>>>> Of course this would be interesting for other OSGi deployments too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This area is always tricky because there are common scenarios in
> >>>> which some bundles/components do not start but the overall
> >>>> application is still considered to have successfully started. So the
> >>>> health-check would need application-specific knowledge. You’re right
> >>>> that this can be implemented in a bundle.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Christian
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Christian Schneider
> >>>>> http://www.liquid-reality.de
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Open Source Architect
> >>>>> http://www.talend.com
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> >> http://www.liquid-reality.de
> >>
> >> Open Source Architect
> >> http://www.talend.com
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