Hi Peter, there is already some documentation at Pax Web
http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/OSGi-fy+your+WAR but as usual, it surely could need some improvements :) regards, Achim > Create a WAB with bndtools (look at bnd -wab and -wablib). Then setup a run > environment with a web container. bndtools will automatically create and > deploy your WAB (which is actually also a WAR) after every file save you do. > I guess it should be possible to use the web-container, I guess PAX Web would > be the one you want to look at. > > I have not tried this yet so if you get this to work I would appreciate how > you setup so we can create a small tutorial out of this because I think > others are very interested in this. > > Kind regards, > > Peter Kriens > > On 6 apr 2011, at 17:01, Daniele Dellafiore wrote: > >> 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
