Hi Claus - Are there any area’s in particular that you’d like tested?
Also - are we just testing the installation? There are a couple of OSGi related JIRA tickets, and I didn’t know if those are being addressed by these changes. > On Mar 12, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
