Author: bramk
Date: Thu May 30 08:51:34 2013
New Revision: 1487787
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1487787
Log:
ACE-139 Added some debug guidance
Modified:
ace/site/trunk/content/user-doc/getting-started.mdtext
Modified: ace/site/trunk/content/user-doc/getting-started.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ace/site/trunk/content/user-doc/getting-started.mdtext?rev=1487787&r1=1487786&r2=1487787&view=diff
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--- ace/site/trunk/content/user-doc/getting-started.mdtext (original)
+++ ace/site/trunk/content/user-doc/getting-started.mdtext Thu May 30 08:51:34
2013
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ To start using ACE, you must first launc
1. Navigate to the sub directory `target`.
1. Start the target using `java -jar target.jar`
-## Working with ACE
+## Provisioning some bundles
Apache ACE has both a Web UI and a [REST API](restapi.html) to interact with
it. Both use a similar workflow. You start by checking out a copy of the
workspace, then you work on that copy, and finally you commit your changes back
to the server.
@@ -58,3 +58,12 @@ The following steps can be followed to g
1. Drag a feature onto a distribution and again repeat this process until
you've associated all your features with their relevant distributions.
1. Drag the distribution onto the target to associate it.
1. Click on 'Store' to actually store changes on the server, which should
trigger the actual deployment of the artifacts to the target.
+
+## Validating that it worked
+
+After following the steps listed above the bundles should have been
provisioned onto the target. But did it work? There are a lot of things that
can go wrong the first time. For exmaple, remember you are provisioning into an
empty OSGi framework so the deployment should be able to resolve. Two ways to
debug problems are;
+
+1. Inspect state and log of the target by double-clicking it in the webui.
+1. Start of by provisioning a shell to allow inspection of the target itself.
+
+Note: In version 1.0 the default binary target comes with a [Gogo
shell](http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-gogo.html) pre-installed. It
can be used right away.
