Appendix D. Spring Dynamic Modules Maven Archetype

As part of the distribution, Spring-DM provides a Maven archetype which creates the basic structure of a Java project that uses Spring DM, especially useful to new users. To run the archetype (and create the new project), simply run the following command line:

mvn archetype:create \
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.springframework.osgi \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-osgi-bundle-archetype \
-DarchetypeVersion=${version}   \
-DgroupId=<your-project-groupId>  \
-DartifactId=<your-project-artifactId> \
-Dversion=<your-project-version> 
   

Note

The command above should be invoked as one line - the \ is used as a convenience to break the long line into smaller pieces

The result of the command, is a Maven 2 project that defines a simple bean, configures it using src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context.xml and src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context-osgi.xml and provides unit and (out of the OSGi container) integration tests. The project is packaged as an OSGi bundle.

Notice that by default, the project does not contain a MANIFEST.MF for your project. The Maven infrastructure will generate it, through Apache Felix bundle plug-in. To do that, run the following (from the project root):

mvn package

Note

To avoid the confusion between the generated artifacts and maintained files, the manifest file resides under META-INF folder while Spring configuration files under src/main/resources/META-INF directory.

This will compile your project, pack it as a jar and create the OSGi manifest based on your classes under /META-INF folder (so that users running Eclipse PDE can use it right away. To generate the manifest, without creating the OSGi bundle, simply run:

mvn org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin:manifest

D.1. Generated Project Features at-a-glance

  • Packaged as an OSGi bundle
  • META-INF/MANIFEST.MF for OSGi bundle automatically generated
  • Simple bean interface and implementation defined. Interface and implementation types are in different packages, only the interface package is exported by the bundle.
  • src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context.xml is a Spring configuration file that defines the simple bean.
  • src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context-osgi.xml is a spring configuration file ready for you to add bean definitions from the osgi namespace (services, references etc.)
  • BeanImplTest case defined to unit test the simple bean
  • BeanIntegrationTest defined to fire up the non-osgi portions of the application context configuration and test outside of OSGi
  • BeanOgiIntegrationTest defined to fire up the osgi portions of the application context configuration and test inside of OSGi
  • .project, .classpath, and build.properties files created to enable use of this project directly inside eclipse as a PDE plugin project