Converting an exisitng project to be deployable in jboss studio???

[paul.blakeley]

Hi,

  I have started work on a project that uses jboss fuse.  All the other developers use netbeans, but I am keen on using the jboss developer studio because it think that it will offer a lot more and give us debugging capabilities for deploying locally.  Is there an easy way to convert an existing maven project into a deployable project through studio.  I can successfully build and deploy(through fuse outside of jboss studio) the existing project and all is fine.  In studio I have marked the project as deployable though it doesnt seem to work!  I have searched the net and unable to find anything suitable.

Thanks,

Paul

[vrlgohel]

Hi Paul,

You won't directly be able to convert a maven project into an OSGI bundle and deploy the same JBoss Fuse. JBoss Fuse uses Karaf under the hood which is a fully OSGI Based container.

Hence, for your existing maven projects, you will need to convert them into OSGI bundles, using the maven-bundle-plugin and specifying the packaging as 'bundle',

<packaging>bundle</packaging>

<plugins>
  <plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.3</version>
  <extensions>true</extensions>
  </plugin>
  </plugins>

[paul.blakeley]

Hi.  thanks for the reply.  The existing pom file already has the settings within it... 

[vrlgohel]

Hi Paul,

If you have existing Maven projects, then unfortunately you cannot make them directly deployable.

If you are looking out for ways to make the bundle deployable, then you need to create a bundle, using  the Plugin Project, much as highlighted here, https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/totd_126_creating_an_osgi.

You should then be able to deploy the bundle.  Hope that helps !

But using maven projects, there is no way to directly make them deployable.

[paul.blakeley]

Thanks for reply on this.  I will look at that later.  From your response though I dont think that I explaining this properly.  Just to try and make this clear, I can compile my existing maven project and drop this into the deploy folder of fuse.  This all works fine.  The issue is how I can use jboss studio to understand the same maven imported project is a deployable entity.  When I mark it deployable and start the jboss server(within studio) it doesnt seem to work!  Hope this makes more sense of what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks for your time.