Re: Axis2/Axiom/Woden OSGi bundle issues, was: Re: Treat axis2 bundles as plain jars

[Andreas Veithen <an...@gmail.com>]

Raymond,

Can you please open JIRA reports for the remaining issues you see in
Axiom? I will be happy to work with you to fix them.

Andreas

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 19:04, Raymond Feng<en...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following is a list of issues we ran into. Some of the issues might have
> been resolved by Axis2 1.5. I have tried to bring some of them to the
> attentions of Axis2 community but it doesn't seem to be very responsive in
> the OSGi area :-(.
>
> With Axis2 1.4.1, we have experienced quite a few issues related to OSGi,
> especially in the following areas:
>
> 1) Some of the axis2 jars (such as axis2-kernel) are OSGi bundles while
> others (such as axis2-mtompolicy) are not.
>
> Axis2 1.5 now has a bundle org.apache.axis2.osgi. I posted a question to the
> Axis2 dev ML to understand if we should use that one instead of individual
> jars but no responses. See:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/axis-dev@ws.apache.org/msg46269.html.
>
> 2) Axis2 jars have split packages, for example, axis2-kernel and axis2-adb
> both have the org.apache.axis2.util package.
>
> 3) Some of the Axis2/AXIOM code uses the JAR service provider pattern to
> instantiate factories such as XMLInputFactory.newInstance(),
> DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(). These methods depends on the TCCL
> which is not OSGi friendly at all.
>
> 4) Some of the Axis2 bundles imports "private" packages from xercesImpl,
> xalan or woden (Seems to be cleaner in 1.5)
> woden-impl-dom still has the issues.
>
> 5) We plugin message receivers in axis2.xml. But Axis2 doesn't have a good
> way to load the classes outside of Axis2 bundles.
>
> 6) Axiom bundle is missing Import-Package to soap11 and soap12 factories.
> (Fixed in 1.2.8)
>
> 7) Axiom-api 1.2.8 is missing OSGi Import-Package to javax.xml.stream.util
> under JDK 1.5:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WSCOMMONS-462 (fixed)
>
> Unresolved issues:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4311
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4310
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Davanum Srinivas" <da...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:32 AM
> To: <de...@tuscany.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Treat axis2 bundles as plain jars
>
>> +1 :)
>>
>> -- dims
>>
>> On 06/19/2009 04:48 AM, ant elder wrote:
>>>
>>> How about giving axis2/axiom/woden patches to fix the manifests for
>>> what we need?
>>>
>>>   ...ant
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Raymond Feng<en...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The axis2/axiom/woden OSGi bundles are half-baked. We have run into many
>>>> issues for the OSGi dependencies. Since then some workarounds are
>>>> introduced
>>>> to make them working with Tuscany in the OSGi environment, such as
>>>> declaring
>>>> some of the Tuscany bundles are fragments to axis2/axiom bundles to fix
>>>> import/export packages. That causes new problems such as PDE fragment
>>>> package visibility and circular dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> I'm really tired of the bogus MFs. Then it came into my mind that we can
>>>> just treat them as plain jars and generate the MF for them. I got the
>>>> whole
>>>> thing working on this path with the following changes. Both maven,
>>>> Eclipse
>>>> PDE and Tuscany runtime are happy now.
>>>>
>>>> * The support for our maven-bundle-plugin to override the 3rd party
>>>> bundles:
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=786257&view=rev
>>>> * Customize the MF for axiom-api:
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=786263&view=rev
>>>> * Fix the MFs to bring up axis2 binding.ws:
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=786265&view=rev
>>>>
>>>> OSGi is fun :-(
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Raymond
>>>>
>