Thank you JB, I’ll set up a project in and I’ll open a PR as soon as it is (sort of ☺) working.
There are couple of things we usually use in our apps such as weaving hook + byte-buddy and ConfigurationPlugins that will be interesting to test as well, but let us do one step a time. Thank you very much, Matteo > On 28 Apr 2022, at 19:21, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > > Hi Matteo, > > You have two approaches to implement what you propose: > - Karaf 4 style deployed in Karaf5: K5 OSGi application manager will > deploy the Karaf4 features service, and so you can use the same thing > as in K4. You will see K4 distribution in K5 doing that. > - Karaf 5 style, you implement your own K5 SPI > - you use another approach like CDI, Spring Boot > > I'm going to push K5 as a branch on the main Karaf repo. Anyway, you > can submit your example directly on https://github.com/jbonofre/karaf5 > (in an example module for instance) > > If you want, we can have a chat together about that. > > Thanks for your help anyway ! > > Regards > JB > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 6:59 PM Matteo Rulli <matteo.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to start playing with Karaf5, waiting for the official RC... >> With the final goal of migrating a few OSGi 3-tier projects (Hibernate, >> Declarative Services, Apache CXF REST) to Karaf-5 my idea is: >> - Put together a very trivial JPA+CXF project using "Karaf-JPA-example" and >> "Karaf-rest-example" in Karaf's examples module >> - Create a feature for the complete "demo application" >> - Run this application in Karaf-5, deploying the application feature. >> >> The lesson learned will be used in the actual migration process. Before I >> start working head-down on this, I would like your advice: is this approach >> going to work with Karaf 5? Or is there any evident show-stopper I should be >> aware? >> >> Many thanks for your help. >> >> Best regards, >> Matteo