As this is open source you're now on the hook for documentation ... :-)
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
On 22 aug 2011, at 16:47, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I'd like to apologize to anyone I may have offended with my previous posts.
> Having reviewed a couple blog posts, PAX Exam appears to be quite powerful.
>
> At the risk of sticking my foot in my mouth, yet again, the only thing I can
> say in my defense is that the OPS4J documentation is spotty at best and their
> confluence wiki is very broken(macro errors) at the moment, so it's
> difficult, at least for me, to figure out what each of the PAX tools do or
> how to use them(hence the blog posts).
>
> -John
>
> Quoting [email protected]:
>
>>
>> Bother. That sounds eerily like the junit runner I'm half way through
>> writing...
>>
>> Quoting Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> well, if you are in need of help, just ask :-) someone out there will
>>> try to answer.
>>>
>>> Taking the example you choose here is a quick (very-quick) help line :-)
>>>
>>> The @Configure method, it is used to configure your test environment.
>>> Pax Exam is meant as a "Integration"-Test toolkit for OSGi so what you do
>>> in this method is just barely configuring the run time environment of your
>>> bundle to test. After this setup where you also are able to configure
>>> different
>>> osgi containers like felix, equinox knopflerfish .... and different
>>> versions.
>>> Your Unit test itself is turned into a Bundle that tests your bundle
>>> in question.
>>> Just like a usual Unit-/Integration- Test would do :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope this makes this a bit clearer :-)
>>>
>>> regards, Achim
>>>
>>> 2011/8/21 <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> That's fair. I guess I just don't understand what all the other stuff is.
>>>> Maybe I just haven't looked closely enough. Like I said before, I wasn't
>>>> trying to be offensive or dismissive in any way. It was just my off the
>>>> cuff
>>>> impression.
>>>>
>>>> Quoting Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> interesting, since I only see "one" extra pax exam annotation,
>>>>> all others are of junit 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> but this is just my 2 cents :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 21.08.2011 04:18, schrieb [email protected]:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/tonit/Learn-PaxExam/blob/master/lesson-junit/src/test/java/org/ops4j/pax/exam/lesson3/LessonTest.java
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quoting Toni Menzel <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you be more specific ? Would love to simplify (in your terms) ..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Toni
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I will check it out. I mean no offense. I just know that the last
>>>>>>>> time I
>>>>>>>> checked out Pax Exam the amount of annotations required to run a
>>>>>>>> test made
>>>>>>>> my head hurt.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Quoting Matt Madhavan <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ornate? Come on man, check it out. I have designed the OSGi
>>>>>>>> development
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> standard for my client based on PAX tools! Probably going to be.
>>>>>>>>> One of
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> largest OSGi project
>>>>>>>>> On Aug 19, 2011 8:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the tip! I'll certainly take a look at it but my general
>>>>>>>>>> impression of OPS4J has been that their stuff(while very cool) tends
>>>>>>>>>> to be a little too "ornate" for my taste.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>>>>>>> -John
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Quoting Matt Madhavan <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> OPS4J PAXTinyBundle Tool might be a good option too!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Aug 19, 2011 1:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> That's quite a trick... Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Quoting chetan mehrotra <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> You can also have look at Karaf Spring deployer which creates a
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bundle
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> the fly for a give Spring config file
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/**karaf/trunk/deployer/spring/**
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> src/main/java/org/apache/**karaf/deployer/spring/**
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> SpringTransformer.java?view=**markup<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/karaf/trunk/deployer/spring/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/deployer/spring/SpringTransformer.java?view=markup>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chetan Mehrotra
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh cool I was thinking along the right track! I think I can adapt
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> do what I need. Thanks for your assistance!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -John
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quoting Holger Hoffstätte
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <holger.hoffstaette@**googlema**il.com <http://googlemail.com><
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> holger.hoffstaette@**googlemail.com<[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> >:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 19.08.2011 15:28, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, that's exactly what I need to do. Do you have a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> recommended
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> approach?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't know what your service does, but creating a bundle
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on-the-fly
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> quite easy (I was surprised how easy, actually). I have some code but
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> can't post the full version, so I put a sanitized snippet here:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/Cqi7QMuJ
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (it does exactly what I needed, but without a doubt Someone
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On The
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Internet will find something Completely Wrong with it..caveat
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> emptor
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> all that.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> This will create a bundle with the same version/BSN root as the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "prototype" Bundle that you pass in. Take care of generating
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> unique
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BSNs.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> The dynamically generated headers can be anything you want; I only
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needed
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> an empty bundle with no exports/imports/services/****Activator
>>>>>>>>>>>> etc. so
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> left as exercise for you. :)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hth,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Holger
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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