Right. Appreciate any feedback.
cheers, John On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 10:45 -0800, Cameron Taggart wrote: > Ah, your over in the ApacheDS sandbox. :) > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/directory/sandbox/jconlon/ > svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/sandbox/ > directory-sandbox > > cheers, > Cameron > > On 11/24/06, Cameron Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, where is your code? I don't see it in the Mina sandbox. > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mina/sandbox/ > > > > Cameron > > > > On 11/21/06, John E. Conlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As part of the ongoing effort to update support for OSGi ApacheDS and > > > Mina I have committed several OSGi projects to the sandbox/jconlon. > > > These projects provide: > > > all the need pieces for OSGi Mina > > > and lay the initial foundations for a full featured OSGi ADS backend > > > that I will be committing next week. > > > > > > Please check out these projects, build them and try them out in an OSGi > > > runtime and let me know what you think. If you have questions I will do > > > my best to answer them. > > > > > > If you have not worked with OSGi previously and want to get started > > > goto: > > > http://incubator.apache.org/felix/ and read the documentation, download > > > sources, and build. > > > > > > (Have tested the committed projects within the felix and equinox OSGi > > > runtimes.) > > > > > > 1. osgi-commons projects > > > Both ADS and Mina depend on third party libraries. To offer ADS and > > > Mina OSGi support these libraries must also support OSGi and be > > > installed and their packages exported on the OSGi runtime. To facilitate > > > this support (in an interim basis until the Felix commons project is > > > initiated or the libraries are made available by their authors as osgi > > > bundles) within the sandbox/jconlon/osgi-commons directory you will find > > > simple pom based projects for creating annotated jars (aka OSGi bundles) > > > for > > > antlr, commons-collections, commons-lang, and jzlib. > > > > > > Note on the maven Plugin: > > > These projects utilize the new org.apache.felix maven-bundle-plugin to > > > do the wrapping/annotating of the jars. This plugin offers some unique > > > features over the first generation maven-osgi-plugin so if you have used > > > the Enrique's original plugin this one will take a little time getting > > > used to. > > > > > > To build all the commons projects: > > > cd sandbox/jconlon/osgi-commons > > > mvn clean install > > > > > > > > > 2. osgi-services > > > > > > a, logging-service > > > Support for an OSGi ApacheDS and Mina will require the slf4j logging > > > packages to be made available on the OSGi runtime. Unfortunately since > > > not all library authors have adopted slf4j, some like Spring-OSGi > > > require commons-logging. So in order to provide the logging packages > > > that we and our likely functional collaborators will need - > > > > > > Within the sandbox/jconlon/osgi-services/logging-service directory you > > > will find an OSGi Bundle offering an implementation of the OSGi > > > LogService, library support for Apache slf4j, and slf4j support for > > > Apache commons-logging. All services are based on the slf4j simple > > > implementation. > > > > > > Configuring logging in an OSGi runtime: > > > To change the logging configuration from the defaults, create/edit the > > > configuration properties in the <osgiruntimeWorkingDir>/ > > > conf/log4j.properties file, then stop and restart the bundle. > > > > > > b. logging-service-integration-test > > > This is the OSGi integration-test project for logging-service. This > > > project builds a OSGi environment, loads various bundles, and tests the > > > logging-service is doing it's thing. It is strictly optional and will > > > require downloading and building of the Spring-OSGi sources. > > > http://www.springframework.org/osgi > > > > > > > > > 3. osgi-mina > > > > > > a. integration-osgi > > > The pom based project in sandbox/jconlon/osgi-mina/integration-osgi is > > > an OSGi annotated jar/bundle for Mina as requested in > > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRMINA-27 > > > > > > For it to resolve in an OSGi it will require the following packages to > > > be exported in the runtime: > > > > > > com.jcraft.jzlib (see #1. above) > > > org.slf4j, (see #2.a above) > > > org.springframework.beans.factory, > > > org.springframework.beans.factory.config, > > > org.springframework.core.io, > > > org.springframework.util > > > > > > The springframework packages bundled for OSGi are provided in the Spring > > > OSGi sub project: http://www.springframework.org/osgi > > > > > > b. mina-osgi-example > > > The sandbox/jconlon/osgi-mina/mina-osgi-example is an example of a mina > > > osgi server application. Based on the mina chat example this > > > application utilizes Spring-OSGi. The beauty of Spring-OSGi (available > > > in spring 2.1) is that with it we can create our beans and provide the > > > wiring without any dependencies on OSGi or for that matter Spring. Cool > > > eh? > > > Project also includes a spring-container server client testcase. > > > > > > > > > c. mina-osgi-example-integration-test > > > This is the OSGi integration-test project for mina-osgi-example. It is > > > strictly optional and will require downloading and building of the > > > Spring-OSGi sources at http://www.springframework.org/osgi to get it to > > > build and run. > > > > > > How does it work? > > > This project builds an OSGi environment, loads Spring-OSGi and bundles > > > required by Mina and the mina-osgi-example and then starts the mina- > > > osgi-example. The Spring-OSGi will detect the start of the mina-osgi- > > > example and find its spring configuration, wire the beans and start the > > > server. The testcase will bring up a chat client and bounce some > > > messages at it. > > > > > > > > > > > > feedback, comments? > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > >
