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Jukka Zitting commented on JCR-2608:
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I've now moved the draft repository bundle from the sandbox into Jackrabbit 
trunk. This jackrabbit-bundle component is roughly equivalent to the webapp, 
JCA and standalone deployment packagings we already have. In other words it 
simply takes all our existing components like core, spi, etc. and packages them 
into one big bundle that can be easily deployed to an OSGi container.

Currently the bundle just needs the JCR and a few logging APIs as dependencies 
and basically just runs out of the box when deployed together with those 
dependencies. There's also a simple integration test in 
test/jackrabbit-bundle-it that verifies that the repository gets correctly 
started and exposed as a service in those circumstances.

Some things still need to be worked on:

1. The bundle currently embeds and exports the Jackrabbit API extensions. Not 
sure if it would be better to have the API as a separate bundle that the 
repository bundle just depends on. That might be a bit troublesome as generally 
the API needs to match the version of the repository.

2. The bundle currently depends both on the slf4j and commons-logging APIs for 
logging. That shouldn't be a problem as AFAIUI most OSGi logging services 
provide bindings for both those APIs. Alternatively we could also embed 
jcl-over-slf4j inside the repository bundle so that only the slf4j API would be 
imported from outside.

3. There is currently no configuration for the kind of repository that the 
bundle starts when activated. It would be nice if you could configure zero or 
more repository URLs and the bundle would automatically make those repositories 
available as services.

4. The current bundle packaging contains tika-core but none of the Tika 
parsers. I was thinking of removing also tika-core from the bundle and instead 
adding a mandatory dependency to the Tika API as exposed by the similar Tika 
bundle package.

5. No extension points or other OSGi modularity is currently supported by this 
bundle. We'll probably want to add those as the need arises, ideally in a way 
that doesn't require adding OSGi dependencies to jackrabbit-core or other 
components.


> Making Jackrabbit content repo usable from OSGi
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JCR-2608
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2608
>             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: jackrabbit-spi-commons
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.1
>         Environment: Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit, Fuse 4.2 (Equinox-based ServiceMix)
>            Reporter: Samuel Cox
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I have been using home-grown, Jackrabbit OSGi bundles for the past year in 
> Fuse 4.0 (Felix based).  For the most part, I put everything in an 
> uber-bundle represented by jackrabbit-core.  However, the service lookup 
> process used in jackrabbit-spi-commons (META-INF/services) started failing 
> when we moved to Fuse 4.2 (Equinox based).  I have not had time to try your 
> new 2.0 bundles.  Also, I realize this is probably an OSGi-SMX problem as 
> opposed to yours.  I just thought I'd let you know because it looks like 
> you're making an effort to provide bundles.

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