CXF works very well in OSGi. Making it work together with spring is a
little harder as spring dm has very bad classloading but that also works.
First of all you should check if you can use Karaf as your container. It
also can work with equinox so it should not be a big change for you.
Karaf allows to install cxf in a very simple way and is the best way to
get cxf to work in osgi.
You can take a look at the Talend Service factory examples:
https://github.com/Talend/tsf
Basically Talend Service Factory is Karaf+Equinox+CXF. So that should be
quite nearto what you have.
The key to make spring work with cxf in OSGi is to define the correct
import or require bundle statements. For CXF < 2.6.0 there is only a
single CXF bundle so it is easiest to do
require bundle on it.
This will import among other things the META-INF/cxf package. So the
cxf.xml will be found. Btw. in current CXF versions you only need
cxf.xml. The other imports are not necessary anymore.
The best way to work with cxf in OSGi though is to use aries blueprint
instead of cxf. It has much better classloading. So when you use maven
and the bundle plugin to create your bundles you normally do not need to
define imports manually when using blueprint. This makes using OSGi
almost as simple as plain java.
I wrote a Tutorial for CXF on Karaf with blueprint some time ago:
http://www.liquid-reality.de/display/liquid/2011/12/22/Karaf+Tutorial+Part+4+-+CXF+Services+in+OSGi
The examples are on github and are really simple:
https://github.com/cschneider/Karaf-Tutorial/tree/master/cxf/personservice
Christian
Am 08.02.2012 15:45, schrieb Isuru Suriarachchi:
Hi all,
I'm trying to bring CXF into my OSGi container (equinox). So the spring
framework is a single bundle and cxf is a separate bundle. And my web.xml
has the following context param.
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml
classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml
classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
But when I try to deploy this, I get the following exception.
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of
class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException
parsing XML document from class path resource [META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml];
nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource
[META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:341)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143)
at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178)
So it looks like the spring framework can't see the cxf.xml which is in the
CXF bundle. Is there a way to overcome this issue? Have anyone tried to use
CXF within OSGi?
Thanks,
~Isuru
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Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de
Open Source Architect
Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
