I'm just learning OSGi, JBoss Fuse (6.1) and Karaf. How can I use a standard (not bundle) Maven dependencies without changing them?
I have a simple Maven bundle project. It depends on some third party libraries. It uses them via its blueprint.xml . I understand if the manifest.mf marks packages in the Import-Package entry then there have to be installed bundle with Export-Package in its manifest.mf. In my case if I install these standard Maven projects they won't export the required packages. So I've got the "Unresolved constraint in bundle" error message during the installation. Is the Maven Bundle or Shade plugin able to solve this issue? Or if they can't which is the most elegant way to resolve the dependencies?
Somewhere I've read the Jboss Fuse is able to resolve dependencies from the Maven repository. Can I use this mechanism somehow?
Thank you!
This may be a bit late now, but you can do that using features.
<features>
<feature name="wrap_features" version="1.0">
<bundle>mvn:org.apache.commons/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.logging/1.1.1</bundle>
<bundle>wrap:mvn:org.jdbi/jdbi/2.70</bundle>
<bundle>wrap:mvn:com.microsoft/sqljdbc4/4.2</bundle>
<bundle>wrap:mvn:org.springframework/spring-web/4.2.4.RELEASE</bundle>
<bundle>wrap:mvn:org.springframework.security/spring-security-core/4.0.3.RELEASE</bundle>
<bundle>mvn:com.doi.ws/mssql-fragment/1.0.0</bundle>
<bundle>mvn:com.doi.ws/mssql-impl/1.0.0</bundle>
<bundle>mvn:com.doi.ws/doi-services/1.0</bundle>
</feature>
</features>
You install the features before deploying your project to the fuse server using the features command
Meanwhile I found an almost good solution: with wrap: namespace/prefix Fuse automatically generates a bundle during installation:
osgi:install -s wrap:mvn:cglib/cglib/2.2.2
But I still have to install each dependency manually. Is there any way to automatize the installation of dependencies?
Thx!
Use Bundle-ClassPath manifest header.
Make sure all your maven dependencies are available in the final jar file under a single directory called 'lib'.( This can be achieved using maven resources plugin that copies maven dependencies in any output directory).
Use maven-bundle-plugin and customize the bundle manifest Bundle-ClassPath attribute with its element. Add a path to lib folder so that all the plain vanilla jars are available as a part of bundle classpath.
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I want to know why OSGi do not respect the maven dependenceis.
I want to create one app in OSGi(AEM). I want to communicate(CRUD) to the database with the help of JPA(eclipselink).
I created maven project with aem-archetype.
Added all required dependencies(of JPA) into my maven project's pom file.
No errors in Eclipse, I built the project via mvn clean install and installed it into AEM(CQ5) via mvn sling:install. All good till now. No Errors.
But when I go and see my bundle in the felix console, I see that it is not Active but in Installed state.The error reported is that it could not resolve the javax.persistence package.
I was puzzled, I searched and I read about it here -
You have to make sure that you place the same version in another
bundle and deploy first. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2325007
I converted JPA jar to OSGi bundle and installed in my OSGi container, and the error was gone. Great!
But why OSGi is not watching out for the dependencies I wrote in pom.xml of my maven project. Why it needs JPA strictly from OSGi bundle?
Maybe this is due to any architectural benefit, but could anyone please explain me here about this behaviour of OSGi? And why/how this feature of OSGi is useful ?
The <dependency> section of your Maven POM only covers your compile time dependencies. That means when you run Maven to build your project those dependencies are used to compile the source code and build your bundle. Maven itself is not aware of AEM or OSGi or any other platform or framework (e.g. Spring).
Maven just compiles your code.
You, as a developer, are responsible that all those required compile time dependencies are also available at runtime.
What we usually do is to create an AEM content package Maven module and put all of our required third party dependencies (e.g. JPA bundles) into it. This content package is then deployed by Maven so that those dependencies are also available at runtime.
Reason is: what you are adding as dependency is getting added in build path of your project and being available for your classes.When you run mvn install,it checks presence of all dependency and creates a bundle/jar for you.By default this bundle has only your project classes not other dependencies.
You need to check in depfinder whether external dependencies are already there in OSGi container,if not you have to load them in OSGi container either by embedding external dependencies in your bundle with the help of maven-bundle-plugin present in pom.xml or by making a bundle of jar file(I wont recommend that)which you have done.
I hope this helps!
Currently I'm working with osgi and karaf.
My problem is the no "osgi ready" dependencies , which means a jar that is not ready to be deployed as a bundle into karaf for example.
I tried two solutions in order to deal with this kind of problems :
I tried to to use "Embed-Dependency" which will include the jar
dependency with the project... I don't think this could be a solution
because when I try to embed the jar , it will ask me to include other
jars that the first jar depend on , and so on ..
I tried to convert the no "osgi ready" jars into bundles using bnd tool or from "Plug-in from Existing JAR Archive" from eclipse project.
And this led to the same result , each jar will call another jar that it depend on it..
I am not sure if I'm doing it the wrong way or what is the problem exactly.
Any tips how to deal with no osgi ready dependencies ?
The simplest way to start is to use the wrap: protocol to auto create a jar. Behind the scenes it uses bnd to create a bundle on the fly. Simply prepend wrap: to the mvn url of the jar.
When you try to install the jar using bundle:install -s wrap:mvn:... karaf will tell you which imported packages are missing. Install jars that provide these packages in the same way. The pom of the jar can give you a hint what is missing.
This can mean to install lots of jars if your initial jars has lots of dependencies.
Once you have a list of jars that are installable together you can either create a feature using wrap protocol or you can make bundles from the individual at build time.
In any case you should take a look are the servicemix bundles. It provides OSGi ready bundles for many libraries.
I was previously on 1.6.x and mvn clean install builds wit no issues; end up with a 10mb jar and able to run all my code.
Now I want to upgrade to 1.10.x for the new lambda/apig/ddb support, I changed the version from 1.6.x to 1.10.x.
But after I build with mvn clean install, I see the jar is only 3kb, why is that? Has something changed with the way the AWS sdk works? At least from I've seen, one new way is you can be pick specific services rather than the whole sdk.
Edit:
The 3kb jar has the following:
pom.properties:
version=1.10.66
groupId=com.amazonaws
artifactId=aws-java-sdk
pom.xml, which lists all the aws sdk services
Have you uncompresssed the jar file and looked up what is in that folder? Based on the information in your question, I guess you have just got your own source files there but not the dependencies. If any, maven dependencies are usually located at META-INF\maven in jar. BTW, do you use maven plugins? For example, maven-jar-plugin only outputs your source code in jar while maven-assembly-plugin also outputs maven dependencies.
We have a bit of a problem installing SDI via maven packaging.
We followed the install guide found at:
https://github.com/Cognifide/Sling-Dynamic-Include
We have placed the dependency into our core bundle in our project, and it appears as though sling-dynamic-include-1.0.0.jar is included in our core bundle's jar files, and the rest seem to install, however, no configurations appear in the system/console interface, and it doesn't appear as though there is any reference to it inside the console otherwise.
We have checked the packages through /system/console/depfinder, and can't find any reference to it.
It's fairly safe to say that the jar file is not being loaded into CQ5.
If we manually install the jar, everything is there, however, we need to integrate it into mvn.
I am sure we are missing something basic, and any help would be appreciated.
Adding to the maven dependencies is not enough.
You have to copy the jar into the install folder of your crx package.
If you use maven-vault-plugin, you can add it as embedded element.
<configuration>
<embeddedTarget>/apps/your-app/install</embeddedTarget>
<embeddeds>
<embedded>
<groupId>com.cognifide.cq</groupId>
<artifactId>sling-dynamic-include</artifactId>
<filter>true</filter>
</embedded>
</embeddeds>
</configuration>
It will copy it to the install folder.
I'm developing an OSGI bundle for parsing a PDF file using PDFBox library. I use maven to build the project and Karaf as the OSGI container. The PDFBox library is OSGI compatible so I thought this would be easy. But I just can't get the deployment model right.
In a traditional web app I would build a single WAR-file containing all the dependencies and put it in a Servlet container and it would get deployed. On the other hand the only way I've figured how to install an osgi bundle is by doing it by hand. I have to create an installation instruction file that lists all the dependencies that have to be manually downloaded and copied to the Karaf deploy folder, and be sure to do it in the right order. I feel like I'm back in the stone ages.
There has got to be an easier way, right? I still use maven to declare dependencies but I just have to use the provided scope. It would be great if those dependencies could be automatically installed.
I'm using the maven-bundle-plugin to generate a bundle from my application. It does generate an OBR repository(repository.xml) and I tried installing my bundle using obr karaf plugin but it still doesn't help with dependencies.
There are different possibilities for provisioning bundles. I prefer to install a bundle using Maven via the Karaf console such as:
install mvn:org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox/1.8.4
If you don't want to install every bundle one by one, you could use so called features as described here. A feature lists all needed bundles:
<feature name='my-project' version='1.0.0'>
<feature version='2.4.0'>camel-spring</feature>
<bundle start-level='80' start='false'>mvn:com.mycompany.myproject/myproject-dao</bundle>
<bundle start-level='85' start='false'>mvn:com.mycompany.myproject/myproject-service</bundle>
<bundle start-level='85' start='false'>mvn:com.mycompany.myproject/myproject-camel-routing</bundle>
</feature>
You add a feature via Karaf console:
features:addUrl mvn:org.apache.servicemix.nmr/apache-servicemix-nmr/1.0.0-m2/xml/features
features:install nmr
Instead of the mvn handler, you could also use the file handler:
features:addUrl file:base/features/features.xml