For greater efficiency, you may wish to convert to features (predefined
groupings of bundles):
http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/users-guide/provisioning.html so
you can install one feature at once instead of installing
bundle-by-bundle. This will also speed up your redeployment process
because it's easy to quickly drop and reinstall/reactivate all bundles
making up a feature by using the up-and-down arrow keys (history keys)
within the Karaf console after Maven has finished installing the updated
bundles within your Maven repository.
Talend's open-source Integration Factory (providing a preconfigured wrap
of Camel & Karaf), in its examples download[1], maintains a separate
"features" project that holds the bundle information for each of the
examples--actually, same story with the examples in Talend Service
Factory (CXF) download. This design allows you to keep all features
configuration in a single place instead of with each subproject.
Eclipse should ideally just be for coding, as for not waiting for "the
full Maven build", I would look into modularizing your work so that a
Maven build of whatever subsystem you're working on won't take that much
time.
HTH,
Glen
[1] http://www.talend.com/download.php#IF (User Documentation and
Examples section).
On 07/22/2011 10:59 AM, Travis Klotz wrote:
So what are developers that are building applications that will run in
Karaf using for a development environment? I'm going to be building a
fairly large number of camel based OSGi bundles that will be running
in Karaf. Up to this point I have been building simple apps in
eclipse, installing a bundle into my local maven repository and then
starting up an external copy of Karaf and installing/updating the
bundle using a mvn:XXXXX url. For my experiments this has worked
well enough, but it is a bit of a long feedback loop. What are other
people doing for an application development setup? Is there any way
to not have to leave eclpse or wait for a full maven build for each
build/deploy iteration?
Thanks,
Travis
--
Glen Mazza
Application Integration Division
Talend (http://www.talend.com/ai)
blog: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza
