[jira] [Comment Edited] (OPENJPA-2465) Create karaf feature for openjpa

["Christian Schneider (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christian Schneider edited comment on OPENJPA-2465 at 12/11/13 5:56 PM:
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Karaf is not really different from other OSGi servers. The main difference is that there are a lot of pre configured feature files for karaf. For example you can already install cxf, camel, activemq and many other projects with just two commands on the karaf shell.

A feature file is simply and xml file that defines one or more features. A feature lists a number of bundles and optionally config using their maven coordinates. So the user does not have to manually download the bundles and provision them instead he just installs the feature file and then the features needed.

Users can also define features for their own application that can refer to other feature files and features. So whole applications can be installed this way. This makes using OSGi a lot easier than with plain equinox or felix.

You can find some exmples for this on my website: http://www.liquid-reality.de/display/liquid/Karaf+Tutorials

I am currently preparing a new tutorial with pax cdi and deltaspike jpa. To make things easier for users I added the feature files.
My old readme for the jpa example contained the references to the single bundles: (See https://github.com/cschneider/Karaf-Tutorial/blob/master/db/examplejpa/ReadMe.txt)

With the new feature and a shortcut to the feature file openjpa can then be installed in karaf using:
features:chooseurl openjpa 2.2.3
or the full uri:
features:addurl mvn:org.apache.openjpa/openjpa-features/2.4.0-SNAPSHOT/xml
features:install openjpa



was (Author: chris@die-schneider.net):
Karaf is not really different from other OSGi servers. The main difference is that there are a lot of pre configured feature files for karaf. For example you can already install cxf, camel, activemq and many other projects with just two commands on the karaf shell.

A feature file is simply and xml file that defines one or more features. A feature lists a number of bundles and optionally config using their maven coordinates. So the user does not have to manually download the bundles and provision them instead he just installs the feature file and then the features needed.

Users can also define features for their own application that can refer to other feature files and features. So whole applications can be installed this way. This makes using OSGi a lot easier than with plain equinox or felix.

You can find some exmples for this on my website: http://www.liquid-reality.de/display/liquid/Karaf+Tutorials

I am currently preparing a new tutorial with pax cdi and deltaspike jpa. To make things easier for users I added the feature files.
My old readme for the jpa example contained the references to the single bundles: (See https://github.com/cschneider/Karaf-Tutorial/blob/master/db/examplejpa/ReadMe.txt)

With the new feature and a shortcut to the feature file openjpa can then be installed in karaf using:
features:chooseurl openjpa 2.2.3
features:install openjpa


> Create karaf feature for openjpa
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OPENJPA-2465
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-2465
>             Project: OpenJPA
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: osgi
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.2
>            Reporter: Christian Schneider
>             Fix For: 2.2.3, 2.4.0
>
>         Attachments: OPENJPA-2465.patch
>
>
> Installing openjpa in karaf would be a lot easier if we provided an openjpa feature. I already created such a feature in pax cdi as it was necessary to test deltaspike jpa. As pax cdi is not a good place for the openjpa feature I would like to move this to openjpa.
> I can provide a patch for trunk.



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