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

[Stuart Douglas]

Thomas Diesler wrote:
> I'd think it should be enough to make the necessary changes to the
> embedded server and osgi subsystem (if there are any).
> The FrameworkFactory that uses the embedded server and stuff related to
> the TCK setup should live in jbosgi <https://github.com/jbosgi/jbosgi>.
>
> cheers
> --thomas

+1

I don't really think TCK config and binary jar files belong in the AS7 
code base, IMHO this should be in a separate repo. I think the embedded 
launcher is probably ok to include in AS7 though.

Stuart


>
> On 11/21/2012 10:45 AM, David Bosschaert wrote:
>> 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 ishttps://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5639
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v42/org/osgi/framework/launch/package-summary.html
>>
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