[rules-users] Deploy Drools in AS7 as OSGi bundles

[Cristiano Gavião]

Hi,

As my system uses Tycho for its build, what I did was to create an 
Equinox P2 repository that includes one eclipse feature that contains 
JBPM 5.3, Drools and all dependencies bundles needed. I've used Eclipse 
Orbit bundles for all other dependecy: 
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/S20120917013952/

That worked great for 5.3, but unfortunately is no working with the 
snapshot versions of JBPM and Drools. There are some new package imports 
in the manifest that couldn't be resolved anymore:

> "Unable to satisfy dependency from org.drools.compiler 5.5.0.SNAPSHOT 
> to package org.jboss.weld.environment.se.discovery.url 0.0.0."




On 02/10/12 03:29, Ioannis Canellos wrote:
>
>     Our OSGi stuff is best effort - working on OSGi was like sticking
>     needles directly into the back of my eyeball, not fun. tbh I find
>     OSGi a real PITA. Too many of our dependencies do not have real
>     OSGi bundles available, so we have to resort to the spring
>     repository - where the versions almost never match our original
>     target version. Further when it fails it's almost freaking
>     impossible to determine why it fails.
>
>
> The problem with the spring enterprise bundle repository, is 
> that spring source is no longer actively interested in OSGi (ever 
> since they donated spring-dm to the eclipse foundation) and a lot of 
> the bundles they provide are either out of date, or just say not 
> optimal. A much shorter repository but with better maintained bundles 
> is the repository of service-mix bundles: 
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/servicemix/bundles/ which 
> host bundles for service-mix, camel etc.
>
> Of course, bundles and metadata are always one side of the problem. 
> Usually, the use of class loaders requires some treatment too.
>
> I'd like to contribute too, in providing a better OSGi support and 
> maybe add some integration tests using pax-exam or arquillian.
> -- 
> *Ioannis Canellos*
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