Hi I have worked on improving the installation of Camel on Karaf to make it rely on newer versions of Spring. It could install and use the old spring 3.x libraries which was annoying when the entire world is using Spring 4.2 or 4.1 etc.
So what I have done a) feature:install camel will only install camel-core and camel-blueprint. camel-spring is not longer installed by default as camel-spring uses spring-dm which loads in Spring 3.2.x. spring-dm is deprecated, and we want in Camel 2.18 to move spring-dm out of camel-spring into a new camel-spring-dm module. Then the camel-spring module can be a spring 4.x only. b) other features that uses spring libraries are not installing camel-spring but instead using the spring features from karaf. That helps to use the current spring version and not install spring 3.x due to camel-spring bring that in due dm (see a) c) make some of the camel-spring-xxx modules that requires spring 4.x to have proper version range in the osgi manifest so they can be installed reliable and use spring 4.x as intended. d) The used spring-range is [4.1,5) which mean it supports the default spring version that karaf install in karaf 2.4 / 3.x and 4.x all together. However in Camel 2.18 we change this to [4.2,5) as we drop support for both spring 4.0 and 4.1 all together. e) I got the tests/camel-itest-karaf to work again - after much hard work. You can run the tests against 3 different karaf containers mvn clean install mvn clean install -Pkaraf3 mvn clean install -Pkaraf4 We will in Camel 2.18 drop support for karaf 2.4.x and (maybe 3.x also) and make those tests use karaf 4 by default. Any Karaf users with Camel. Its your chance to help testing and provide feedback. -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
