Installing FAB in JBoss Fuse 6.1

[yuri.sokolovski]

Hi, folks.

I am trying to use fab: commands in JBoss Fuse 6.1  (fab:install, fab:start etc) and Karaf complains that it doesn't recognize fab: scheme:

Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: Unknown protocol: fab

        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:619)[:1.7.0_21]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.createURL(SecureAction.java:254)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.JarRevision.initialize(JarRevision.java:148)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.JarRevision.<init>(JarRevision.java:77)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.BundleArchive.createRevisionFromLocation(BundleArchive.java:878)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.BundleArchive.reviseInternal(BundleArchive.java:550)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.BundleArchive.<init>(BundleArchive.java:153)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.cache.BundleCache.create(BundleCache.java:277)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.installBundle(Felix.java:3117)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        ... 13 more

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown protocol: fab

        at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.parseURL(URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.java:372)[org.apache.felix.framework-4.0.3.redhat-610355.jar:]

        at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:614)[:1.7.0_21]

So the question is: What is the proper way to install FAB in JBoss Fuse 6.1.

Thank you!

[janstey]

This is fixed in the GA candidate version 6.1.0.redhat-379:

https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/ea/org/jboss/fuse/jboss-fuse-minimal/6.1.0.redhat-379/jboss-fuse-minim…

We are deprecating FAB though in this release in favour of plain OSGi bundles. It may be removed in a later release.

Cheers,

Jon

[yuri.sokolovski]

Thanks, I'll try that version.

RE: deprecating FABs -  Sorry to hear that... We would like to use FABs to simplify our development process. There are many cases when bundles are not available for thrid-party libraries and FAB seems like a perfect fit for these cases...Without FABs we would need to convert such libraries into bundles and wrap scheme doesn't seem to always help due to versioning clashes.

[janstey]

So in our case when 3rd party libraries do not provide OSGi metadata we use bundles from the Apache ServiceMix Bundles project:

http://servicemix.apache.org/developers/source/bundles-source.html

The Bundles project contains OSGi-ified versions of many 3rd party dependencies. For instance, one of the more recent additions has been the Spring Framework, since they no longer produce any OSGi metadata with their releases. Don't hesitate to approach the ServiceMix community for such bundles as it is likely other people would benefit from having them as well :-)

Cheers,

Jon

[purwara]

Jonathan,

This might not be related to this but i am unable to download version 6.1.0.redhat-379 from Index of /groups/ea/org/jboss/fuse repository. Is there another maven repo for the same??

Thanks,
Ankur

[ffang]

Hi,

Just FYI, you can download JBoss FUSE 6.1 GA from here[1]

[1]http://www.jboss.org/products/fuse

Freeman