So I am also back to hacking to…

So I am also back to hacking to get a REST service up, with some more excuses. Anyway, once again tried Restlet as I like its minimal set of jar files and simple interface. But even if it sometimes (from my googling) seems to be advertised as well documented, it actually seems rather poorly documented. […]

wicket on OSGI + customized webapp url

I posted earlier about getting wicket to run on OSGI using the ServletFilter features of the Apache Felix ExtHttpService. Well, that one was done using the default “/*” filter pattern, that is capturing all requests. While Wicket will nicely pass through anything it does not want to handle, I wanted to put my web based […]

debugging wicket with multiple osgi modules

previously my osgi app was all running from inside one single large bundle. so i decided to split the different components to their own bundles for various reasons. one of these provides a web-browser based user interface. so as for every other component i just took this and put it in its own as well. […]

Setting up Felix HttpService

Well, every once in a year it is good to try to code something and not just write BS docs. Well as usual this time I am monkeying with getting a webapp running inside the Felix OSGI container. So what is the problem? Well, First off, the documentation just says to download the Felix HttpService […]

OSGI classloaders, integration testing and all that

So I managed to get my services to communicate and all. After this I wanted to set up some basic (regression) tests that make sure they keep working together as before. Using the familiar JUnit4 I set on this adventure. It is a unit testing tool but works just fine for me with integration testing […]

bundles, services, …

So I have progressed some more with my wonderings about the wonders of OSGI and implementing some basic stuff. First off, I had a number of services I wanted to implement. I started with a number of bundles each implementing a service of its own. Making these work together was problematic in Felix due to […]

registering bundles and listening to new services

So, some very basic stuff.. What is a bundle in OSGI? I was thinking about it as the service that is provided. But having now implemented one and tried to access it through the container it seems that this is another component vs service issue. So I think the bundle is a “component” in that […]

start of some OSGI adventures

and todays toy to waste my life playing with is the OSGI SOA based stuff. So in order to develop some server components, I have decided to use OSGI as it seems to fit nicely what I want to do. First of all, I now try to find a nice container to best fit my […]