Paul - Thanks for quick turnaround. As you suggested, will try to build software from latest codebase. 1. Where can I find the management bundle jar? (org.apache.ace.managementagent.jar). Unfortunately I cant download the full dist from the below URL or any mirror sites. Can someone fix the URL?
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/ace/org.apache.ace.release.full-0.8.1-incubator-distribution.zip 2. Unforntunately I couldn't find much info on documentation pages. Whats the different between devserver, devgateway and full dist at download page ( http://ace.apache.org/downloads.html.) Thanks Vijay On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Paul Bakker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vijay, > > 1) Yes it's ready for production. To give you an idea, we are running our > system on Amazon EC2 using ACE with ~200 bundles and ~20 servers. We > provision software updates every few days to the production servers. This > works well. > Make sure to build a release from the latest sources however! Do not use > the current binary distribution in production, there are some nasty issues > in there. > > 2) Not sure, but basically you just need the management agent bundle. > (org.apache.ace.managementagent.jar). This should work in Equinox as well. > > 3) ACE has a REST api that you can use from scripts. You can do > everything, and a lot more, that you can do from the UI using the REST api. > We use this in production as well. Servers are started on demand and use > the REST api to register themselves as targets and start provisioning. > Documentation can be found here: > http://ace.apache.org/user-doc/restapi.html > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > On Oct 23, 2012, at 20:19 , Vijay Reddy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am evaluating Apache Ace (Incubator) as an option for provisioning > (install/updates) of OSGi bundles to couple of applications on our network. > > So far was able to download the distributution and from Ace WebUI, I > could add bunch of artifacts/features/distributions and I > could start remote targets using ace-laucher and discover artifacts from > server onto the targets. Everything looks good so far. > > I have following questions. > > 1)Is the software production ready at current status? > 2)I am planning to use equinox OSGi Impl. on my targets. How can I > integrate Ace management agent with equinox. > 3)We want to maange the software using scripts. Does ace support > scripting to manage artifacts/targets instead of using Web Ui. > > Thanks. > > >
