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Different deploy approach then war product [message #1713595]

Thu, 05 November 2015 12:04

Phil Wim

Messages: 89
Registered: October 2013

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Hi there,

currently I want to adapt to a new deployment method for my rap app. Since I get more and more familiar with osgi, I thought it's also a good idea to get rid of things I don't need (e.g. tomcat).

So I created a featurebased osgi run config to start rap as well as several other self written osgi services. From Eclipse this works like a charm.

My first try was to create an eclipse product export of my two features. After struggling a while I got complete export. Unfortunately it fails on startup (of eclipse.exe) with: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context available outside of the request processing.

For me this deployment method sounded the easiest. Export -> start -> go... But obviously I'm wrong. Are rap and eclipse product incompatible or am I the issue here Wink

?

Then I took all bundles from plugin and start them by hand (java jar org.eclipse.osgi.jarconsole) with the exported product config.ini. When I do that it looks like all plugins are available. But most of them are loaded with status "starting" or just "resolved". Starting all by hand via console is not what I want to do again and again.

At the end I landed at the common approach: war product.
Now I'm asking myself what are other rap and osgi developer use for deploying there apps.

Is Eclipse Virgo, Apache Karaf or Apache ACE the better solution? Is anybody deploying osgis by console?

I appreciate any help and would love to hear others experience about it.

Thanks in advance
Philippe

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Re: Different deploy approach then war product [message #1713604 is a reply to message #1713595]

Thu, 05 November 2015 12:48

Aleksander

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Registered: May 2014
Location: France

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Are you using equinox? Maybe give us the full plug-in list you have in your plugins folder.

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Re: Different deploy approach then war product [message #1713617 is a reply to message #1713604]

Thu, 05 November 2015 14:17

Phil Wim

Messages: 89
Registered: October 2013

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Maybe i found another hint to deploy my osgi run config as eclipse product. I forgot that i already use products that were build as a eclipse product (e.g. cdo server). Next steps i'm trying is to write a headless Application class which implements IApplication.

But i'm more interested in an running osgi environment where i can deploy to such as Karaf or virgo (as far as i understand how they are working).

I attached my bundles as txt (personal bundles excluded)

Attachment: bundles.txt
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Re: Different deploy approach then war product [message #1713975 is a reply to message #1713617]

Mon, 09 November 2015 09:09

Ivan Furnadjiev

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

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Hi,
did you read this blog post [1] about deploying RAP application in Virgo?

[1]
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2014/02/24/deploying-rap-applications-made-simple/
HTH,
Ivan

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Re: Different deploy approach then war product [message #1713976 is a reply to message #1713617]

Mon, 09 November 2015 09:11

Ivan Furnadjiev

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

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.... see also these slides from EclipseCon 2013 [1].

[1]
http://developer.eclipsesource.com/slides/deploy-and-manage-rap-applications/#/
Best,
Ivan

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Re: Different deploy approach then war product [message #1714391 is a reply to message #1713976]

Thu, 12 November 2015 10:36

John Gymer

Messages: 279
Registered: November 2012
Location: UK

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We take both approaches - stand-alone OSGi and also WAR. In general we suggest using OSGi during unit test, as it is so quick and simple to recreate and deploy, then WAR once you get further down the line with testing, as you are more likely to use a 'full AppServer' in a production environment.

As long as you have your environment setup for the JVM beforehand, a simple command like this will startup the OSGi server (make sure all the required plugins are in the same directory):

java -jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.9.1.v20130814-1242.jar -clean -console

We're using a specific version of OSGi.
The ss command can be used to see what bundles started OK, so you just need to work through any unresolveds, or non-started bundles until you have everything you need.
The config.ini (in subdirectory Configuration) is used to determine what gets loaded and started automatically, along with port details etc. We've found OSGi to be quite fussy about the format (particularly line-feeds) in the config.ini, but once you've figured it out, it works nicely.

Here's an example (Tabris rather than RAP, but same difference!) - all plugins are standard, except the rapide one, which is our app runtime):

#Rapide OSGi config file
jetty.port=9090
org.osgi.service.http.port=9090
osgi.bundles.defaultStartLevel=4
osgi.bundles=com.eclipsesource.tabris@start,\
  uk.co.iet.rapide.appsvr@start,\
  org.apache.felix.gogo.command@start,\
  org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime@start,\
  org.apache.felix.gogo.shell@start,\
  org.eclipse.core.commands@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.common@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.console@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.http.servletbridge@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge@start,\
  org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.http@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.io@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.util@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.server@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.continuation@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.servlet@start,\
  org.eclipse.jetty.security@start,\
  org.eclipse.osgi.services@start,\
  org.eclipse.rap.jface@start,\
  org.eclipse.rap.rwt@start,\
  org.eclipse.rap.rwt.osgi@start,\
  org.json@start,\
  org.apache.commons.fileupload@start,\
  org.apache.commons.io@start,\
  org.eclipse.rap.addons.filedialog@start,\
  org.eclipse.rap.addons.fileupload@start,\
  javax.servlet@start,\
  org.mockito.mockito-all@start

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