On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:01 AM, David Jencks wrote: > Getting OWB to work in a plain osgi environment should not be too hard. I > think the CDI annotation model is a lot better in all ways than blueprint. > > I think what's missing is the connection to OSGI services. To be more than a > self-contained set of components with no relationship to anything outside the > bundle you need a way to consume osgi services from CDI components and expose > CDI beans as services. I haven't seen a proposal on how to do this.
A CDI Extension should be able to export all the services from OSGi into CDI. The extension could easily export too, if you wanted. Rick Hightower wrote a bi-directional CDI/Spring bridge using that technique. Should be illuminating for bridging OSGi and CDI: http://rick-hightower.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-meet-cdi-cdi-meet-spring.html -David > > On Mar 25, 2012, at 3:13 AM, Christian Schneider wrote: > >> Found a newer thread. >> http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/OSGi-Work-td4223311.html >> >> Seems a lot has improved since the first thread I found. I will try to get >> this running and report on what I have found. Perhaps Charles can also >> comment on this as he seems to be one of the drivers behind the efforts on >> the openejb side. I am not sure if he watches this list. I will also ask on >> the openejb list. >> >> Christian >> >> Am 25.03.2012 12:04, schrieb Christian Schneider: >>> That would be ideal of course. Does anyone know if openejb could be used >>> for this? >>> >>> I found this page which shows how to use openejb in OSGi: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/OPENEJB/osgi-openejb.html >>> >>> and I found an interesting thread: >>> http://openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/OpenEJB-and-OSGi-td981781.html#a981782 >>> >>> So this sounds like it would work but not that nicely. You have to require >>> the openejb bundle and you have to use an Activator. >>> Ideally I would like this to work like blueprint. Where you have an >>> extender that finds the trigger (META-INF/beans.xml) and initializes the >>> bundle accordingly. >>> Additionally it seems that openejb seems to have some dependencies on >>> eclipse RCP bundles which is not good for a server deployment. >> >> -- >> >> Christian Schneider >> http://www.liquid-reality.de >> >> Open Source Architect >> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com >> >
