Just to let you know that the updated Cave documentation has been published on website:
http://karaf.apache.org/manual/cave/latest-4/ Regards JB On 05/11/2019 13:02, giamma wrote: > Hello, > > I am testing on Karaf an OSGi application that runs successfully in Eclipse > Virgo, WebSphere Liberty and plain Equinox (bndrun) using Pax Web. > > The application is running as expected, and in order to provision it I > created a XML feature repository file containing several features and > configurations. > > When creating the feature file if I don't or can't use maven URLs, can I use > variable substitutions in file:// URLs in orther to pickup bundles that I > copied into a folder, e.g.: > > file:///${karaf.base}/mybundles/my.bundle.jar > > Can I do the same to copy to e.g. ${karaf.etc} additional configuration > files (<configfile> feature element)? > > As an alternative approach, I would like to try OBR, which would make the > deployment more similar to that of Eclipse Virgo and WebSphere Liberty, > letting me re-use more of the existing build scripts. > > By reading the documentation I understood that: > 1 - I should install Karaf Cave which provides an OBR repository > 2 - I should install OBR which will let Karaf resolve bundle requirements > against Cave > 3 - I should deploy my top-level bundles either manually or by placing them > in the OBR repository > and by listing them in a feature using an "obr:" URL. > 4 - required bundle dependencies will be found by OBR in the Cave repository > and will be deployed for me > > > The Karaf documentation explains how to use Cave and how to create and > populate a repository, but: > * - the latest version of Cave, 4.2.0 has completely different shell > commands, in particular "upload" is gone > * - Cave 4.2.0 documentation describes a gateway command (don't know if that > helps) but that command > does not show up in the shell even after installing the corresponding > feature as documented in the guide > > With respect to Cave my questions are: > * - how can I create an OBR repository, populate it, and use it for > resolution when using Karaf 4.2.7 and > Cave 4.2.0? If this is only possible with Cave 4.1.x, will the same > capability be available in a future > Cave 4.2.x or is this deprecated? > * - is there a way for Cave to monitor the repo folder and auto-update the > repository.xml (like Virgo and > WebSphere do, which do not even use repository.xml) or do I have to > manually update the > repository every time a bundle is changed? > > Thanks in advance. > Giamma. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Karaf-User-f930749.html > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré [email protected] http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
