Manage a large OSGi application

Question

I have a large, growing OSGi application with several packages. I am curious to know the best way to manage this type of application. I currently use Eclipse and Maven, but although this is great for creating packages (via maven-bundle-plugin), managing the entire application is not easy at the moment.

What I would like to do is either have one launch configuration, or ONE pom.xml, which can be launched and the entire application / project will be created and launched. Also, I would like to have something that would be good for debugging.

I heard about PAX Construct and installed it in Eclipse, but so far it has not helped much (maybe I am not using it correctly).

I am sure that there are people with large OSGi applications that are managed correctly. Any advice that can be shared can greatly help.

Thanks Steven

Answer 1

Launch configuration is possible through the Pax Runner . It allows you to choose the implementation of the OSGi platform, add the profiles (pre-packaged packs kits for some roles, such as web, log, ds, etc.) and has good support for support, for example, it can download packages from the repository Maven. As a result, you can have a startup configuration like

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This works well so that we keep the list of bundles in one place, but there are still many hand-written scripts, and there are problems associated with the configuration between the two systems - for example. configuration files, beam start levels, etc.