Hey Kevin,
Here's what I could find: "Deploying OSGi applications to Liberty" [1]
Now, this may be a little complicated by the fact that the enroute model
tends to guide you to resolve a whole runtime. Meanwhile with openliberty
or WebSphere Liberty you are deploying into a container which already
"contains a lot of features".
The crux of the issue becomes "resolving only what you need to deploy".
This is were the complication comes in. What you need at that point is a
way to "find out what the container provides in a way that you can use this
during resolve time".
Currently the way to do that is to create what's called a "distro" jar of
the target container. This distro is a JAR file which provides all the
capabilities that the target container provides at one point in time.
How do you create a distro?
*1)* install the bnd remote agent bundle [2] in the target container
runtime. This will automatically open a local socket on a default port used
to the remote cli next.
*2)* execute the following command using the bnd cli [3]:
bnd remote distro -o ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar ws.liberty 5.6.7
*3)* take the jar "ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar" create by that and place it into
the maybe the directory containing the bndrun file which is used to resolve
your deployment jars.
*4)* in the bndrun file add:
-distro: file:${.}/ws.liberty-5.6.7.jar
*5)* resolve... the result of the resolve should be the set of bundles you
need to install to openliberty.
What you need to bare in mind is that the distro file needs to be
regenerated each time the liberty installation changes in any significant
way otherwise you won't get the real state of the system needed to resolve
against.
I hope that makes some sense.
Let me know if the instructions were clear and if it worked.
- Ray
[1]
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQTP_liberty/com.ibm.websphere.wlp.doc/ae/twlp_dep_osgi.html
[2]
http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=biz/aQute/bnd/biz.aQute.remote.agent/3.5.0/biz.aQute.remote.agent-3.5.0.jar
[3]
http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=biz/aQute/bnd/biz.aQute.bnd/3.5.0/biz.aQute.bnd-3.5.0.jar
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Matthews, Kevin via osgi-dev <
osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> wrote:
> Hi Tim, a quick question. I am learning OSGI from osgi en route samples.
> In our environment, our monolithic application runs on IBM Websphere
> Liberty but I am doing a POC to convert to modular architecture then
> bundles to run on Websphere Liberty. Can I build bundles using BND en route
> from my eclipse and install these bundles on a Liberty server? I know
> liberty uses the equinox OSGI container.
> The information in this message may be proprietary and/or confidential,
> and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the
> intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this
> message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any
> dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly
> prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify
> First Data immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from
> your computer.
>
> _______________________________________________
> OSGi Developer Mail List
> osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org
> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
>
--
*Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile>
(@rotty3000)
Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com>
(@Liferay)
Board Member & EEG Co-Chair, OSGi Alliance <http://osgi.org> (@OSGiAlliance)
_______________________________________________
OSGi Developer Mail List
osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org
https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
