Apache DS in OSGi

[Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net>]

Hi all,

I would like to run Apache DS on OSGi. Is that already possible?
I saw that the jars already have bundle meta data and some posts that 
announce that OSGi support is planned.

Christian

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Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de

Open Source Architect
Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com

Re: Apache DS in OSGi

[Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net>]

Hi Pierre-Arnaud,

perhaps I can help with making Apache DS OSGi ready. The problem for me 
is that I do not have detailed knowledge on the inner workings of Apache DS.
The normal distro also seems to only contain a single file. Is there 
some overview somewhere which jars I need to pull up a minimal version 
and how they are wired together / initialized?

Christian


On 05.09.2013 13:16, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Indeed, we've done some experiments with OSGI in the past.
>
> Unfortunately we didn't find the time to finish the implementation of a complete OSGI implementation of ApacheDS.
>
> The first part, the Apache  LDAP API is already fully OSGI and used with Apache Directory Studio via OSGI for more almost 2 years now.
>
> Some parts of ApacheDS work great as bundles and are also used within Apache Directory Studio too (LDIF partition, Server Configuration, to name a few) but there are still some tasks to fulfill to have a complete OSGI server.
>
> Most of the ApacheDS code was written before thinking about OSGI, so there are still a lot of packages shared between projects and we'd also like to maintain a non-OSGI version (which complicates things quite a bit).
>
> That said, I don't think we're so far from it. At the time of the experiment, we had a branch with a running ApacheDS instance within Felix. Very rough, but it worked.
> As we didn't have much to dedicate to it, we decided to push support for OSGI to ApacheDS 3.0.
> Any help welcomed if you're interested in this area.
>
> Regards,
> Pierre-Arnaud
>
>
> On 3 sept. 2013, at 21:38, Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to run Apache DS on OSGi. Is that already possible?
>> I saw that the jars already have bundle meta data and some posts that announce that OSGi support is planned.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> -- 
>> Christian Schneider
>> http://www.liquid-reality.de
>>
>> Open Source Architect
>> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
>>


-- 
Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de

Open Source Architect
http://www.talend.com

Re: Apache DS in OSGi

[Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>]

Hi Christian,

Indeed, we've done some experiments with OSGI in the past.

Unfortunately we didn't find the time to finish the implementation of a complete OSGI implementation of ApacheDS.

The first part, the Apache  LDAP API is already fully OSGI and used with Apache Directory Studio via OSGI for more almost 2 years now.

Some parts of ApacheDS work great as bundles and are also used within Apache Directory Studio too (LDIF partition, Server Configuration, to name a few) but there are still some tasks to fulfill to have a complete OSGI server.

Most of the ApacheDS code was written before thinking about OSGI, so there are still a lot of packages shared between projects and we'd also like to maintain a non-OSGI version (which complicates things quite a bit).

That said, I don't think we're so far from it. At the time of the experiment, we had a branch with a running ApacheDS instance within Felix. Very rough, but it worked.
As we didn't have much to dedicate to it, we decided to push support for OSGI to ApacheDS 3.0.
Any help welcomed if you're interested in this area.

Regards,
Pierre-Arnaud


On 3 sept. 2013, at 21:38, Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to run Apache DS on OSGi. Is that already possible?
> I saw that the jars already have bundle meta data and some posts that announce that OSGi support is planned.
> 
> Christian
> 
> -- 
> Christian Schneider
> http://www.liquid-reality.de
> 
> Open Source Architect
> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
>