I’ve added these points to the Resolve App Note.
https://github.com/osgi/osgi.enroute.site/blob/gh-pages/_appnotes/resolving.md
<https://github.com/osgi/osgi.enroute.site/blob/gh-pages/_appnotes/resolving.md>
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
> On 5 Dec 2017, at 15:46, Raymond Auge via osgi-dev <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Raymond Auge <raymond.a...@liferay.com
> <mailto:raymond.a...@liferay.com>> wrote:
> 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
>
> FYI, this "bnd" command is just an alias for invoking the executable bnd jar:
> "java -jar <bnd.jar> remote distro ..."
>
>
> 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
>
> <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
>
> <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
>
> <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 <mailto: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.
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