Of course, the best way to deploy a web-service in OSGi is as a WAB. A WAB is a war without a /lib directory, and with the appropriate wiring information in the MANIFEST.MF file. Of course, I dont' think a WAB can be used outside of OSGi, so its use is somewhat limited. But, if you're looking for the best way to do web-services in OSGi, I think WAB is the right answer.
You may also want to look at CXF. v/r, Mike Van ----- Original Message ----- From: "Achim Nierbeck" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 11:10:26 AM Subject: Re: A better life: quick webapp deploy Hi Daniele, I wouldn't say you that pax-web is only for wars. You can do what you request quite easily. Deploy your depending jars/bundles in the osgi container deploy your war and reference those bundles via the manifest, this is called web application bundle, where Pax-web does quite a good job at :) So yes, you can deploy just your Servlet and a web.xml and you don't even have to call your war a war you can deploy it as a jar as long as you have the right manifest in it :) regards, Achim 2011/4/6 Daniele Dellafiore <[email protected]>: > Hi. I am trying to achive this goal. > What do I hate the most of webapp development in java? That to put a webapp > online after you've changed a single line of code, you have to deploy a > whole war. Now, I can manage to reduce the war by hand to be around 1 MB but > yet is too big, and also complicated: I have to put by hand all the jars in > a JEE/lib folder and keep them alignet, by hand. > Then what if I do not change the webapp bundle but just a dep? I have to > repackage. For me this is hell. Moreover, the JEE containers itself is hell. > > > Enter OSGI. What I want to achieve is deploy a webapp as a JAR, not as a > WAR. Or a war, but without the dependencies. > > The war belongs to the idea of being a super package with all the dep in it. > I want to deploy a jar with a web.xml, but it seems that no one ever did > this and I have no idea how to do this. W > With this solution, my modularized app can be deployed in seconds cause > every jar is just a few Kb of data, eitehr the webapp jar than the jar it > depends upon. > > Any tip for this? All the pax-web stuff are really targetted to deploy a > war. > I think that even a custom solution with some custom code to start a servlet > container and it's web.xml from an osgi Activator would be better than the > standard jee hell. > > > -- > Daniele Dellafiore > http://danieledellafiore.net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
