We often use sling with Servicemix 4, so we had to integrate it with Karaf. Since then, we exclusively use Karaf, even if we are not in need of Servicemix. The features Karaf gives us, such as the SSH console, features, etc. makes it very attractive for us.
Karaf is now a top-level apache project that has matured immensely in the last year. -- Mike On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Justin Edelson wrote: > It has been almost a year since I seriously evaluated Karaf, so I > can't really speak to it. I will say that I am very happy with how > Launchpad handles bundle upgrades and that this is an important piece > of functionality for me. > > The change I have in mind is purely a matter of how the bundles are > retrieved (i.e. from the local Maven repository instead of extracted > from the JAR/WAR). How those bundles are processed will be exactly > what we already have in Launchpad. > > Justin > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Mike Moulton <[email protected]> wrote: >> If your going to go this far, would it be worth looking at using Karaf as >> the basis of the launchpad? Given this functionality is already provided out >> of the box, with many other benefits. >> >> This is how we deploy all our sling instances, in a Karaf instance, either >> standalone or in a WAR. It is worth noting though, due to the nature of URL >> protocol registration, you can only register the mvn protocol provided by >> PAX in a JVM once. This has the side effect of only being able to deploy 1 >> instance of an embedded Karaf WAR into another container once. >> >> -- Mike >> >> >> On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Justin Edelson wrote: >> >>> Worth looking at, but AFAIK, the Pax URL handlers doesn't fully interop >>> with Maven's settings. Reading >>> http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxurl/Mvn+Protocol, it looks like mirrors >>> and proxies aren't supported. >>> >>> Justin >>> >>> On 9/24/10 3:25 PM, Felix Meschberger wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Could we leverage stuff from PAX/OPS4J here ? Namely the stuff they did >>>> around URL Handlers ? An option besides Maven could also be OBR, of course. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Felix >>>> >>>> Am 24.09.2010 20:48, schrieb Justin Edelson (JIRA): >>>>> instead of packaging bundles in the standalone JAR or WAR, provision them >>>>> at runtime from a Maven repository >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> >>>>> Key: SLING-1804 >>>>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1804 >>>>> Project: Sling >>>>> Issue Type: New Feature >>>>> Components: Launchpad >>>>> Reporter: Justin Edelson >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> something I've been thinking about for a few months, but never wrote >>>>> down... >>>>> >>>>> It would be nice to have the option to create a Launchpad JAR or WAR >>>>> which was only composed of Launchpad and the bundle list. At runtime, >>>>> Launchpad could download the artifacts referenced in the bundle list from >>>>> a Maven repository. >>>>> >>>>> With the work being done to extract the repository integration code from >>>>> the rest of Maven (i.e. to create Aether), this should be relatively >>>>> simple. >>>>> >>> >> >>
