Hi Devs,
OSGi is the buzz word we are hearing all over the world these days. There
are many OSGi implementation, out of which I would like to my attention to
Equinox and Felix.
As you know Axis2 is the hot web services engine world is talking about. So
how would we make Axis2 OSGi aware and expose it's functionality with the
aid of HttpService. I would say that would be really cool.
So recently I am being working on this and found a cool way to expose Axis2
as a OSGi bundle.
So I was thinking of using OSGi service concept, and I would think of a
service interface like follows,
interface Axis2Service {
public void registerPOJO(String className) throws Exception;
public void registerPOJO(String className, Map messageReceivers) throws
Exception;
public void registerAAR(String location) throws Exception;
public void registerMAR(String location) throws Exception;
}
Like HttpService, Axis2Service initiate the Axis2 environment, use managed
services of HttpService to obtain endpoint information to populate the
correct listeners.
Dims has done some great work regarding JAX-WS and OSGi, so I would say we
should go to the next level and make this is a reality. If all devs are ok
with this, I would like to get working on this. Oh.. not for Axis2 1.4 of
course.
Thank you!
Saminda
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Saminda Abeyruwan
Senior Software Engineer
WSO2 Inc. - www.wso2.org
