Information Retrieval

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:58:17 +0100

This morning I spent some time looking for information on how to deploy a legacy webservice on Apache Karaf.

This post isn’t about Karaf and OSGi and webservices though, but a reflection on how to efficiently find information that can lead towards a specific technical problem on the Internet. For quite some time now I feel that this task has become much more complicated in the past 2-3 years than it used to.

Deploying a GWT application as OSGi module with Apache Karaf and Maven

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:20:14 +0100

In a project I’m currently working on we use the OSGi platform in order to achieve higher modularity (the project is about building a framework for massive data ingestion and processing for a high-availability service, and the processing is dealt with via workflows that are composed of a number of plugins that we don’t develop, hence the need for modularity).

We use the Apache Karaf framework, which offers neat extension points and means to customize it. One of the nice features is the WebConsole that can also be extended, which would provide the means to add a GUI for the users. However, this happens through providing a Servlet implementation, which isn’t really handy these days when wanting to develop a bit more complicated GUIs.

Osgi on Manuel Bernhardt

Information Retrieval

Deploying a GWT application as OSGi module with Apache Karaf and Maven