[jboss-osgi-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBOSGI-393) Provide installer support for AS7

[David Bosschaert (JIRA)]

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David Bosschaert commented on JBOSGI-393:
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I think things were a little different in the AS6. In AS6 we always shipped as a loosely coupled addon (our jars were put in a deployment folder), whereas in AS7 we are part of the distribution (we are in the modules tree). Let's say the as integration layer needs to change due to a change in AS itself. That means that just replacing jboss-as-osgi.jar is not enough. It may require additional AS jars to be replaced as well. Effectively you might end up patching the whole of AS instead of just the OSGi component, and I think patching AS as a whole is an entirely different topic.

>> This methodology ensures that we provide backward compatible artefacts that are QAed against the latest stable AS. There should be no manual steps required by the user to get the latest jbosgi release installed in the last stable AS. <<

I think this may be impossible to do (but correct me if I'm wrong). Let's say there is a change in jboss-modules that we have to react to in OSGi. This would mean that our OSGi distribution will only work in AS versions that also contain this change.

What I think we can do is have automated runs that check a particular version of our components with the accompanying version of AS.
So we have an installer that installs the version of our examples in AS7.0.0.Alpha1 and tests that they work with that. Additional the installer can install the version of our examples that work AS7.0.0.Alpha2-SNAPSHOT in that and test those. Having a single set of artefacts that work in both would only work if the underlying AS infrastructure is very stable, and I don't think we have hit that point yet.

> Provide installer support for AS7
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>                 Key: JBOSGI-393
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBOSGI-393
>             Project: JBoss OSGi
>          Issue Type: Task
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>            Reporter: Thomas Diesler
>            Assignee: David Bosschaert
>             Fix For:  JBossOSGi 1.0.0 Beta10
>
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> Create dependencies to these bundles and install/start them in AS
> Configuration should be explicit in standalone.xml

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