osgi-example

A simple example which publishes an OSGI service

Building & testing

Simply use maven:

mvn clean package

Installing and running in Felix

Firstly get the Felix framework from http://felix.apache.org/downloads.cgi

Secondly extract the Felix runtime and copy the jar file into the /bundles/ directory.

Finally, run felix

java -jar bin\felix.jar

Checking that the bundle is installed

From the Felix gogo console type lb. You should see something like this:

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Welcome to Apache Felix Gogo

g! lb
START LEVEL 1
   ID|State      |Level|Name
    0|Active     |    0|System Bundle (4.2.1)
    1|Active     |    1|Apache Felix Bundle Repository (1.6.6)
    2|Active     |    1|Apache Felix Gogo Command (0.12.0)
    3|Active     |    1|Apache Felix Gogo Runtime (0.10.0)
    4|Active     |    1|Apache Felix Gogo Shell (0.10.0)
    5|Active     |    1|khubla.com OSGI example jar (1.0.0.SNAPSHOT)

To check that the service installed, use the inspect cap service command. In thie case our service id is "5" so:

inspect cap service shows:

g! inspect cap service 5
osgi-example [5] provides:
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service; com.khubla.osgiexample.service.HelloService with properties:
   Language = English
   service.id = 17