Configure artifactId using variable in OSGi bundle - maven

I am looking to have a dynamic artifactId in my POM file that builds an OSGi bundle. I am trying to deploy two instances of a bundle with a slightly different configurations in the same ServiceMix karaf container.
I am using the BND plugin to create the OSGi bundle, but I don't see a configuration in BND that would allow this.
Has anyone been able to dynamically set a bundle name so you can deploy two versions of the same bundle in a single ServiceMix container?
Thanks.

I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to achieve. But to me it looks a lot like you are in need of the ConfigAdmin Service. With the config Admin service you deploy your cfg in the etc folder of servicemix which is selected to configure a Service. If you want to have multiple instances of one service to be available for every configuration you should look at the ManagedService Factory pattern. It will give you a new Service Instance for every configuration available.

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Fabric8: OSGI bundle jars for openshift and kubernetes java client

I am working on integrating fabric8 for my application and need to add fabric8 kubernetes and openshift client as OSGI bundles. I can get them from following maven repositories as JAR archives.
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.fabric8/openshift-client/2.5.7
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.fabric8/kubernetes-client/2.5.7
And and have to convert them to OSGI bundles to add them to my application since my application is only supporting bundles.
Is there a way to directly get the OSGI bundles of the above jars from maven repository as dependencies without converting them and adding them to a central repository ?
There is no direct way to get OSGI bundles, we have to build it manually.
We can make it available but we have to prepare the bundle and there are plenty of tools available,
For reference:
http://felix.apache.org/documentation/subprojects/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html
http://wso2.com/library/tutorials/develop-osgi-bundles-using-maven-bundle-plugin/
The kubernetes-client ships bundles for all its artifacts. The bundles are available on maven central and you can use them just by using the bundle classifier.
For example:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/fabric8/kubernetes-client/2.6.2/kubernetes-client-2.6.2-bundle.jar

Example using Jersey (REST resource), OSGi (Apache Felix), and Maven (build and deploy)?

I seem to be really struggling here. What I want to do (in this order) is:
1) Build a RESTful resource using a Jersey application and resource w/annotations (this is not the issue).
2) Package, install, and start that bundle into the Felix OSGi container, as an HTTP service, including dependencies.
3) Package, install, and start a WAR in the OSGi container that may incorporate #2 as a dependency.
And I would like to be able to do all of this using Maven.
I cannot seem to find a working example of even the individual steps, especially involving Maven, that work let alone the combination of those steps. I have tried cobbling together various q&a from across the web with varying levels of success but not an end-to-end working example yet.
Any pointers would be appreciated...
I do not have an example for Jersey but I have a tutorial for CXF with Apache Karaf (which uses Felix). It shows how to create a Rest service and build it with maven. Using Apache Karaf you can then deploy the bundle directly from the maven repo. Moving this to Jersey probably just means to exchange the lib and use another blueprint config to initialize the rest service.
Apache Karaf also allows to deploy wars and wabs but I have not yet tested them.
Apache Stanbol does most or all of this (not sure if the war packaging is included out of the box) to implement its RESTful services.
You'll have to dig through its codebase but searching for Jax-RS annotations in there should point you to the right places.
I also am really struggling with exactly what you are attempting to do. So far, I seem to be really close but alas not quite there, here's what I've been doing:
creating a War with Maven that defines my Jersey Resource's
bundling it with maven bundle plugin ( see section Adding OSGi metadata to existing projects without changing the packaging type ). Which allows me to run the restlets in Tomcat and test.
define a target in Eclipse that includes resources from my locally defined p2 site which I create with the p2-maven-plugin plugin. In this way I can gather up any of the dependencies from the WAR project into a p2 site, which I can deploy to an Eclipse defined target
Where I am stuck is trying to register the Jersey Resource's as services, for which I've tried:
using the JAX-RS OSGI connector, for which I eventually gave up on because it uses glassfish jersey which seems to export a version 2 API of Jersey when Jersey hasn't even defined a version 2 API yet. This caused package resolution problems when I wanted to use version 1.17 of Jersey libs.
registering the Resources using a Whiteboard a la Apache Felix HTTP Service, my current approach which doesn't seem to work yet.
And, finally, if the preceding doesn't work I'll try Amdatu
Another route I might try is from the Jersey project OSGI chapter
I tried this combination and made it up and running -
1- Modularity Specification-->OSGi specification
2- OSGi implementation-->Apache Felix 4.4.0
3- OSGi Runtime-->Apache Karaf 3.0.3
4- Software Architecture Specification of REST – JAX-RS
5- JAX-RX implementation-->Apache CXF – 2.7.5
You can refer this nice tutorial - http://java.dzone.com/articles/building-cxf-rest-service-osgi
Now, I am also planning to move to Jersey from CXF as the Jersey is the light wait reference implementation of JAX-RS. Now I am planning to use Jersey with Apache Felix/Apache Karaf. You can install Jersey in Karaf and deploy your Jersey Rest Web Services as Bundle. You can refer this tutorial - https://vzurczak.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/web-applications-with-osgi-working-with-jersey/
Here's a good example on github : https://github.com/ddragosd/jax-rs-on-karaf

Basic Apache Camel FileRoute deployed as OSGi bundle

I'm trying to do some "hello world" example with Apache Camel. Just a simple route, deployed as OSGi bundle to Apache Karaf. And it's crazy, too many things to learn at once, Camel itself, integration with spring, integration with OSGi and Karaf...ugh.
I'm trying to follow the idea from here: http://www.andrejkoelewijn.com/wp/2008/10/19/simple-camel-dsl-osgi-bundle-example/.
I've created the bundle, the package with FileRoute.java file, etc, but I can't produce valid manifest.mf file, it's generated by "bundle plugin for maven" - so the POM file is used to generate the manifest file.
What's the problem is this in the manifest file, line with import packages:
Import-Package: com.company.foo.bar.demo;version="0.1",org.apache.ca
mel.builder;version="2.10",org.apache.camel.model;version="2.10",org.
apache.commons.logging
With error: "No available bundle exports package 'org.apache.camel.builder'" (and .model package).
Well, I understand what is the problem, but…How to expose these packages for the bundle?
Next I have there another bundle with Apache Camel context, so I thought that good idea is to expose the packages from there, through "export package", but it doesn't work, the camel bundle can't be build then.
I'm quite lost :( I'd really appreciate help or hint.
Thanks!
If you use Apache Camel 2.10 or better then the Maven archetypes is a good place to start a new Camel project. We have archetypes that can create OSGi based project for either spring-dm or OSGi blueprint. You chose which one you want to use. The project is then ready for OSGi as it setup a maven plugin that generated the needed osgi stuff for you. Only in more advanced cases you would need to tweak this plugin.
See details at: http://camel.apache.org/camel-maven-archetypes.html
If you use Maven 3.0.x then its much easier as you can just type
mvn archetype:generate
Then it runs in interactive mode, then type camel to filter only camel archetypes.
And then select the number for the archetype. eg for example the spring-dm to use OSGi with Spring.

OSGi bundles and wars

Is it possible to have standard war deployment, which can be deployed on tomcat and also can be build as OSGi bundle and deployed with other bundles in OSGi container tomcat(i think virgo)?
Yes, there's a good deal of interoperability between WARs and WABs. Apache Aries and WebSphere Application Server will convert WARs to WABs on deployment. This is a good way to get up and running, but it's a better practice to use proper WABs in which you build in the OSGi metadata yourself. The extra OSGi headers won't interfere with the deployment in a normal Tomcat container, so the WAB has the greatest flexibility.
For your build, you have a number of options. For example, the maven bundle plugin can be configured to build WABs, or you can use Eclipse PDE's tooling support for OSGi metadata.
Pax-Url-War provides this functionality to containers like Apache Karaf. In brief, this allows you to import an URL like war:file:///path/to/myapp.war and Pax will wrap it as an OSGi bundle, optionally changing the URL root and other parameters on the fly.

Cloning Spring Application Context in OSGi bundle

I have a Spring-enabled OSGi bundle. I'd like this bundle to export a factory-type OSGi service which client software can use to create multiple instances of the application context defined in this bundle.
By default the Spring DM library bundles will automatically scan and create an instance of an application context from any Spring XML configuration found under "META_INF/spring". To avoid this I moved the Spring XML configuration files under a different folder and then tried creating the application context programmatically on demand from the factory class. Unfortunately I ran into issues with Spring schema files not being available on the bundle classpath. I really don't want to embed the required Spring jars within my bundle just to get access to those schemas.
Is there a simpler way to clone Spring application contexts under an OSGi environment?
I do not understand your problem in detail but if you just want to load the application-context from a different location than META-INF/spring you can define this in the MANIFEST.MF file using 'Spring-Context', e.g. for files in the root folder
Spring-Context: /application-context-core.xml,/application-context-osgi.xml
See the documentation for further information.

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