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Re: [ecf-dev] OSGi RemoteServices Error
Hi Ramachandran,

On 9/13/2016 2:14 PM, Ramachandran K. Narayanan wrote:
Hello ECF-Dev,

I am currently working on using Remote OSGi services in the Eclipse ICE project and I am facing some issues here.

The server side already uses OSGi, but I am introducing changes for Remote services, based on the code in https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/Getting_Started_with_Remote_Services_API

1) When I run tests on the server side, I get an error during the containerAdapter.registerRemoteService call, which roughly goes as:

!ENTRY ch.ethz.iks.r_osgi.remote 4 0 2016-09-13 16:40:07.148
!MESSAGE Error during remote service registration
!STACK 0
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PrintStackUtil
at ch.ethz.iks.r_osgi.impl.CodeAnalyzer.visit(CodeAnalyzer.java:297)

So I tried resolving this by adding org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime as part of the Dependency in the Manifest file. Then I get the same Exception but for a different class (at the same location) and I end up adding more packages to the Dependency list.

I am now stuck at org.slf4j.impl (as the ClassNotFoundException), but I was simply wondering if this is the right way to resolve this?

I don't think this is the right way to resolve this.    Based upon what you say above, my suspicion is that the changes you are making to the remote service interface are adding some dependencies that pull in the PrintStackUtil class along with others.

But before going further with this, I would suggest starting from a different example than the Getting Started with Remote Services API.  This example was introduced quite a few years ago...before OSGi Remote Services specification actually existed.   Now it's much easier to use the OSGi Remote Services approach (less code for both the remote service registration and the consumer).  The Getting Started you point to above should still work, and we don't want to remove it, but I would recommend using OSGi Remote Services/Remote Service Admin because it's both simpler and standardized.

Here, for example, is a getting started with OSGi Remote Services

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tutorial:_Building_your_first_OSGi_Remote_Service

There are other tutorials as well here:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project#OSGi_Remote_Services

https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=EIG:Getting_Started_with_OSGi_Remote_Services&redirect=no

There are also some examples of registering and consuming a remote service using Declarative Services annotations, which also simplifies things even further.   I haven't yet had a chance to complete a tutorial for this but you can look at example api, provider, and consumer bundles here

https://github.com/ECF/enrouteEvalExampleRemoteService

That is, by adding more packages to the Dependencies. Without my changes, I don't get the errors (when I revert to the older code).

This makes me think that your changes are introducing runtime dependencies (perhaps in bundles that are pulled in for other classes you are referencing).  Can you describe the changes you are making to the examples?   If you don't want them to be public then you could correspond with me directly at slewis at composent.com.


2) Would applying the code changes from the previous link be enough to support Remote OSGi? That is, are there typical areas I need to keep an eye on while doing this? I know that this is too broad a question, but I am working with OSGi for the first time, so I am just trying to avoid the obvious issues.

Well, I do think that OSGi Remote Services is the way to go.   The model for OSGi RS/RSA is straightforward:  local OSGi services are *exported* (provider) so they can then be discovered and *imported* by some other process.   This allows you to avoid calling all the ECF RS-specific code that's in the Getting Started page.   All of the necessary calls to export the service are made automatically as part of the service registration.

One of the tricky issues with both local and remote services is dependencies.   For example, if your service interface includes references to packages and/or classes contained in some other bundle, then all those dependencies have to be available on both the provider/host and the consumer.   It's very easy to include an entire tree of unwanted dependencies simply by importing one package into the bundle that contains your service interface.   That's kind of what I'm suspecting is going on with your attempt to modify the example, resulting in the ClassNotFoundExceptions occurring in the code that's responsible for creating the remote service proxy on the consumer.

If you can let us know what changes you are looking to make to the service interface then we can probably help further.   But I would suggest looking a the OSGI Remote Service tutorials and examples given above as they are simpler, smaller, and standardized.

Hope this helps.

Scott



Thanking You,
Ramachandran

--
Ramachandran K. Narayanan
Software Engineer
RNET Technologies Inc.
240 W.Elmwood Drive, Suite 2010
Dayton, OH 45459-4248


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