Re: [jbpm-dev] [rules-dev] services registered by OSGi bundle activators of Kie, Drools and Jbpm are still needed ?

One point to remember is that OSGI Activators did not work out of the box for optional runtime plugins. Which is why we had to use custom trackers, look at how the decision tables stuff is done. We’d need to see if the blueprints approach can solve this problem. We should also move this chat over to the new google groups :) Mark On 18 Aug 2014, at 17:44, Cristiano Gavião <cvgaviao(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Kris and Mark, I passed this morning analyzing the activators... I'm attaching a sheet where I added all Activators being used by Kie, JBPM and Drools. Note that where I marked with red I saw "signs of smell things" and added a comment... below I write the reasons I think that we should to remove completely those activators... On 18-08-2014 07:28, Kris Verlaenen wrote: Cristiano, Cristiano Gavião schreef op 15/08/2014 17:02: Hi, has a long time that I don't play with Drools and JBPM source code. This week I was walking through them again and saw a lot of new elements, interfaces and new ways to setup things. I saw that some Blueprint specific annotations and classes were created (kie-aries-blueprint). But the existent osgi activators are still registering some services that seems not be appropriated anymore. at least they are different from the set of elements in blueprint namespace (environment, kmodule, kbase and others ) that I saw. For example, in activator of drools-core we have a KnowledgeBaseFactoryServiceImpl being registered. in drools-compiler we have KnowledgeBuilderFactoryServiceImpl being registered. I can't use blueprint, so I need to figure out what is the best setup workflow for OSGi and get the proper services registered. Question, is the kie-aries-blueprint.xsd reflecting the actual state of kie, drools and jbpm core setup workflow, so I can use it as start point? could someone check that and give me a feedback ? It is true that using factories isn't always trivial in OSGi, well, in reality static factory is not recommended at all in osgi. just because normally it is implemented adding a strong "dependency" between API and one Implementation. and that is against modularity that OSGi preaches. In those scenarios in order to change an implementation almost all the times you will need to change the api also. I saw the addition of ServiceRegistryImpl to concentrate the services without a DI. that would reduced a bit this problem (btw, I saw some factories where it isn't being used yet: org.kie.api.KieServices) but not all... to me the best solution for non-osgi to separate API from Implementor still is JavaSE Service Locator. so the activators you are referring to are used (internally) to do additional registration for OSGi. They should be working and are required when using OSGi. Maybe those activators used to be required and useful (internally) some day. But currently, I don't think they are needed anymore. The reasons I think they should be removed: First, there many services being registered using interfaces from non-API packages; Second, the focus of RedHat seems to be Fusion/ Karaf and they already use blueprint natively. Third, there are a project exclusive for blueprint based setup, so doesn't make any sense to me to use ServiceTracker and register things "by hand in activator" and then complement that using blueprint. Why not just use blueprint ?? Fourth, we can't use one of the most useful features of OSGi, the Configuration Admin service. So, we can't (re)configure the registered services at runtime using simple service properties... Fifth, those activators don't scale ! if I have an environment (multi-tenant) where I need to have more than one version running same time. So, would help much more if those activators were removed, and improve the blueprint project to register all that is needed for it. after that we could create other projects for people wanting to use OSGi Declarative Services and maybe a OSGi CDI just like the Blueprint one.... And I bet we could figure out a much more clever way to synchronize the "internal registry" with the OSGi service registry instead have to call ServiceRegistryImpl.getInstance().registerLocator inside the activator (Drools-Compiler). One possibility is to create an OSGi implementation for ServiceRegistry interface instead use ServiceRegistryImpl in all places. On top of this, some additional "sugar" was created that allows you to more easily define various elements (kbase, env, etc.) so they can be injected more easily. You are free to use these, but this is not required, you could initialize these elements yourself using pure Java as well for example. Afaik, kie-aries-blueprint.xsd should be up-to-date. There are some osgi examples available here: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/droolsjbpm-integration/blob/master/drools-o... Kris On 18-08-2014 07:28, Kris Verlaenen wrote: Cristiano, Cristiano Gavião schreef op 15/08/2014 17:02: Hi, has a long time that I don't play with Drools and JBPM source code. This week I was walking through them again and saw a lot of new elements, interfaces and new ways to setup things. I saw that some Blueprint specific annotations and classes were created (kie-aries-blueprint). But the existent osgi activators are still registering some services that seems not be appropriated anymore. at least they are different from the set of elements in blueprint namespace (environment, kmodule, kbase and others ) that I saw. For example, in activator of drools-core we have a KnowledgeBaseFactoryServiceImpl being registered. in drools-compiler we have KnowledgeBuilderFactoryServiceImpl being registered. I can't use blueprint, so I need to figure out what is the best setup workflow for OSGi and get the proper services registered. Question, is the kie-aries-blueprint.xsd reflecting the actual state of kie, drools and jbpm core setup workflow, so I can use it as start point? could someone check that and give me a feedback ? It is true that using factories isn't always trivial in OSGi, so the activators you are referring to are used (internally) to do additional registration for OSGi. They should be working and are required when using OSGi. On top of this, some additional "sugar" was created that allows you to more easily define various elements (kbase, env, etc.) so they can be injected more easily. You are free to use these, but this is not required, you could initialize these elements yourself using pure Java as well for example. Afaik, kie-aries-blueprint.xsd should be up-to-date. There are some osgi examples available here: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/droolsjbpm-integration/blob/master/drools-o... Kris <KieDroolsJbpmActivators.ods> _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev