[jboss-as7-dev] Adding the ability to run the OSGi TCK with AS7

[David Bosschaert]

As many know - AS7 is also an OSGi Framework meaning that it implements 
the OSGi Core Specifications.

Additionally native JBoss support for more and more OSGi Enterprise 
Specifications is being added. Examples are:
* The OSGi HttpService Specification (as7-5083)
* The OSGi WebApplication Specification (as7-5235)
* OSGi JPA support (as7-5476)
* other specs are also looked at
For everything that implements an OSGi spec there is also an OSGi TCK 
testsuite. Over the past while I've been looking at getting AS7 to run 
under the OSGi TCK. This is specifically needed when you want to check 
that the above implementations are actually compliant with the specs.

To be able to run AS7 under the OSGi TCK 2 things had to be done:
* OSGi in AS7 had to be enhanced to support the OSGi Launcher API [1]. 
This is what the TCK uses to launch a framework.
* The TCK configuration files need to be tweaked so that it runs with 
AS7 (instead of the RI).
I've implemented these two in 
http://github.com/bosschaert/jboss-as/commit/8de4742e3f7bef059c2d12137c360ffb4d0a5780

I've added the TCK integration to the jboss-as/osgi/tck subtree. It's 
fairly small as its mostly configuration and having it in jboss-as means 
that we can easily kick off a tck run in hudson or from the commandline 
for any AS build. It effectively gets us an additional bunch of system 
tests for the (Enterprise) OSGi compliant components.

No changes to the product (build directory). The launcher API is not yet 
included in the product, although we could decide to include it if we 
think that makes sense.

I would like to file a pull request for this soon. Hope this works for 
others. The associated JIRA is https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5639

Thanks,

David

[1] 
http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v42/org/osgi/framework/launch/package-summary.html