On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Peter Kriens <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I’ve added these points to the Resolve App Note. https://github.com/osgi/
> osgi.enroute.site/blob/gh-pages/_appnotes/resolving.md
>

Awesome!

Thanks Peter!
- Ray


> Kind regards,
>
> Peter Kriens
>
>
> On 5 Dec 2017, at 15:46, Raymond Auge via osgi-dev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Kevin,
>>
>> Here's what I could find: "Deploying OSGi applications to Liberty" [1]
>>
>> Now, this may be a little complicated by the fact that the enroute model
>> tends to guide you to resolve a whole runtime. Meanwhile with openliberty
>> or WebSphere Liberty you are deploying into a container which already
>> "contains a lot of features".
>>
>> The crux of the issue becomes "resolving only what you need to deploy".
>> This is were the complication comes in. What you need at that point is a
>> way to "find out what the container provides in a way that you can use this
>> during resolve time".
>>
>> Currently the way to do that is to create what's called a "distro" jar of
>> the target container. This distro is a JAR file which provides all the
>> capabilities that the target container provides at one point in time.
>>
>> How do you create a distro?
>>
>> *1)* install the bnd remote agent bundle [2] in the target container
>> runtime. This will automatically open a local socket on a default port used
>> to the remote cli next.
>> *2)* execute the following command using the bnd cli [3]:
>>
>> bnd remote distro -o ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar ws.liberty 5.6.7
>>
>
> FYI, this "bnd" command is just an alias for invoking the executable bnd
> jar: "java -jar <bnd.jar> remote distro ..."
>
>
>>
>> *3)* take the jar "ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar" create by that and place it
>> into the maybe the directory containing the bndrun file which is used to
>> resolve your deployment jars.
>> *4)* in the bndrun file add:
>>
>> -distro: file:${.}/ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar
>>
>> *5)* resolve... the result of the resolve should be the set of bundles
>> you need to install to openliberty.
>>
>> What you need to bare in mind is that the distro file needs to be
>> regenerated each time the liberty installation changes in any significant
>> way otherwise you won't get the real state of the system needed to resolve
>> against.
>>
>> I hope that makes some sense.
>>
>> Let me know if the instructions were clear and if it worked.
>>
>> - Ray
>>
>> [1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQTP_libert
>> y/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.doc/ae/twlp_dep_osgi.html
>> [2] http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=biz/aQute/
>> bnd/biz.aQute.remote.agent/3.5.0/biz.aQute.remote.agent-3.5.0.jar
>> [3] http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=biz/aQute/
>> bnd/biz.aQute.bnd/3.5.0/biz.aQute.bnd-3.5.0.jar
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Matthews, Kevin via osgi-dev <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tim, a quick question. I am learning OSGI from osgi en route samples.
>>> In our environment, our monolithic application runs on  IBM Websphere
>>> Liberty but I am doing a POC to convert to modular architecture then
>>> bundles to run on Websphere Liberty. Can I build bundles using BND en route
>>> from my eclipse and install these bundles on a Liberty server? I know
>>> liberty uses the equinox OSGI container.
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