| Re: [ecf-dev] provisioning of ECF RS/RSA with karaf |
Hi Folks,
In preparation for releasing ECF 3.8.0 (3/10), yesterday I tested the install of the latest build into Apache Karaf v3.0.0 [1].
Currently, we build the entire ECF SDK and create a deployment repo. The SDK feature and repo includes ECF's OSGi Remote Services/RSA implementation, and all the other parts of ECF (e.g. docshare, presence API, Eclipse UI and collab, etc). It also includes all the generated source bundles.
As part of the build of the SDK feature, an associated karaf-features.xml is created [2]. This karaf-features.xml contains, by default, all of the bundles/plugins for the SDK itself...i.e. all the RS/RSA SDK, all the Eclipse-based plugins, and all of the generated source bundles.
What this means is that if karaf users install everything in the SDK feature/karaf-features.xml (which is the natural thing to do), they will get much more than the RS/RSA impl...they will get all the Eclipse plugins, and the generated source bundles.
I would like to make it easier for karaf users to get only the RS/RSA impl (and possibly examples)...without getting all the Eclipse plugins (i.e. docshare, UI, etc.)...that aren't relevant to karaf users...and won't, in fact, be able to actually run (because they depend upon parts of Eclipse that don't exist in karaf-based runtimes).
Some possibilities for making install of RS/RSA into karaf frameworks:
A) One would be to just remove the irrelevant plugins/bundles from the SDK feature/karaf-features.xml...and only include the RS/RSA bundles, RS examples, and source code (perhaps not the source code bundles?). I'm not sure of the best way to do this...either Markus or Wim will probably have to advise as I think it would mean modifying our build template in some manner include only a subset of the SDK feature bundles into the karaf-features.xml.
B) Another way would be to create a new build project...that builds this feature: org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.sdk.feature. Then we can/could deploy the repo created via this new build to download.eclipse.org *in addition* to the SDK. Then karaf users could simply point to the location of this repo and install only the RS SDK. This is a slightly worse option, IMHO, because it means having/maintaining two separate repos once released...and that's got some possibily undesirable side effects.
Any other options that people can think of.?..i.e. to simplify provisioning for karaf users that want to use ECF's RS/RSA impl?
Without any further input I'm inclined to go with 'A' in the short term (i.e. for ECF 3.8.0). Further...once this gets done (on Friday), I will create a wiki page describing how to install ECF's RS/RSA impl via karaf, so that the methods are clear for people.
Thanks,
Scott
[1] http://karaf.apache.org/
[2] http://build.ecf-project.org/repo/C-HEAD-sdk.feature/lastSuccessful/archive/site.p2/karaf-features.xml
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