fuse esb cannot start installed OSGi bundle

[wl880504]

I want to create a OSGi bundle which can be deployed with fuse esb from a jar file. I got floodlight.jar in target folder with ant build. I have tested the floodlight.jar with:

         java -jar floodlight.jar

It runs good.

Then create a OSGi bundle from floodlight.jar with bnd:

         java -jar bnd.jar wrap floodlight.jar

this results a OSGi bundle named floodlight.bar.

Then I manually deploy it at FUSE ESB console.

         karaf@root> osgi:install -s file:/home/user/Dir/to/floodlight.bar

Got bundle ID: 255

         karaf@root> osgi:list

         [[ 255]] [[Active]] [[ 60]] floodlight (0)

The problem is that the bundle is installed, but cannot get started. I have used > osgi:start 255, but got no response. Any one can help me with it?

[iocanel]

Using osgi:install with the -s option will start your bundle once it gets installed.

The you see in the osgi:list means that your bundle is started.

[wl880504]

I have question about BundleActivator interface. If I want the bundle to do something, like java -jar floodlight.jar, once it is started. Do I need to implement the BundleAcitvator? So it behaves like running from the main() method.

Right now I did not implement BundleActivator.  It behaves like a library once started.

[davsclaus]

Yes if you need any business logic to start when the bundle starts you need to either

- use BundleActivator

- a spring xml file

- a blueprint xml file

The latter two is special for Karaf / SMX / FuseESB as they detect these xml files and start the application accordingly.

You can mix and match and have both a bundle activator and xml files as well.