Hi Tom,
You can also create your own Karaf custom distro.
We are also discussing about Karaf Boot to simplify the bootstrapping/ramp up on
Karaf. Short term, we are working on an improved dev guide.
Back on your question:
1. From a dev perspective, you can have a running karaf instance, you just do
mvn install on your bundle, and thanks to bundle:watch, it's automatically
updated in Karaf (not need to perform any command).
2. For debugging, you are right: just start karaf in debug mode (bin/karaf
debug), it binds port 5005 by default, and then, connect your IDE remotely.
Regards
JB
On 09/05/2017 01:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I'm trying to get an idea of how people go about developing for karaf, from a
practical point of view.
So karaf is maven focused. There are archetypes for creating command, general
bundles and so on.
I can then use maven to generate some eclipse project files that allow me to
write and compile my code within eclipse. I guess if I need extra dependencies,
I have to edit my pom and hopefully eclipse picks this up (never really done
serious maven development, so I don't know how this process really works).
When I want to try something out, I have to perform a maven build, start up a
copy of karaf, install the bundle (or bundles) into it, then try out my new
code? All from the command line?
What about debugging? You start karaf with the "debug" option and then remotely
connect eclipse to the karaf instance so that you can then place breakpoints and step
through the code if necessary? Does it just magically find all the source code?
Just trying to get a picture of what the expected workflow is and whether I'm missing anything. We're used to
doing things in bndtools where you've got eclipse tooling for everything, so I'm just trying to do a mental
reset really on what a "karaf/maven centric" development environment and process would look like.
(I'm aware of the "Integrate Apache Karaf and Bnd toolchain" article, but we've had limited success
with it beyond simple "hello world" examples. Maybe we just need more perseverance).
Thanks.
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