Load a camelContext from a OSGi BundleActivator

[pchandler]

Questions:

1. Is loading/running a camelContext from a OSGi BundleActivator possible/supported?  Reason for the question.

2. If so, is there a sample project you can share? Seems like all the product examples use Spring DM to start the camelContext.

Thanks in advance,

Peter.

[njiang]

Spring DM is powerful

But you can find anther way to start a camel context.

Please check out the camel-example-guice-jms, its use an OSGi BundleActivator to start up the camel context, and guice is used for wiring the camel context.

[pchandler]

Thanks. I had a look at the example.

My understating of the example is:

Bundle Activator -> uses Guice/Java to start camel.

In my case:

Bundle Activator -> uses Spring DM to start a camel XML context file.

[njiang]

Spring DM has a extender which could help you to load the spring configure from the bundle, and it also helps you to find the resources from OSGi.

To do it, basically you just need to use Spring DM create a OSGi version application context and set the bundle context to it, then Spring DM will take care of the rest work.

Here is example that you can take a look.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk/tests/camel-itest-osgi/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/itest/osgi/OSGiIntegrationSpringTestSupport.java

Willem

[pchandler]

Answered in threadID=2216

OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext applicationContext = new OsgiBundleXmlApplicationContext(new String[]{"org/apache/camel/itest/osgi/CamelContext.xml"})
   applicationContext.setBundleContext(bundleContext);
   applicationContext.refresh();

Thanks.