Web Service Trackers

OSGI-based bundles to be used to detect Web services in bundles and expose them automatically.

Service Trackers will detect registered services which are annotated with JAX-RS or JAX-WS annotations and expose them as REST/SOAP Web Services using standard Web service stacks.

Get them all

git clone https://github.com/petalslink/osgi-ws-trackers.git
mvn install

The easiest way to use trackers is to use Apache Karaf (http://karaf.apache.org) and features as explained below.

Howto

The standard OSGI Way

Create a class, annotate it with JAX-RS, and register it as service in the OSGI context.

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

@Path("/ping")
public interface PingApi {

    /**
     *
     * @return
     */
    @GET
    @Path("/pong")
    Response pong();
}

import org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceRegistration;

public class Activator implements BundleActivator {

    ServiceRegistration registration;

    /**
     * Start
     * @param context
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
        PingApi ping = new PingApiImpl();
        registration = context.registerService(PingApi.class.getName(), ping, null);
    }

    public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
    }
}

If the service trackers are installed and active, they will detect the newly registered PingApi service and expose it as REST service using the OSGI HttpService and Jersey.

The iPOJO Way

TODO

Configuration

Services/Resources will be exposed using some basic naming conventions:

• if the OSGI bundle header contains a Ginkgo-RestPath value, it will be used as path
• else the OSGI bundle symbolic name will be used (. will be replaced by /) ie foo.bar.baz will produce /foo/bar/baz path.

Apache Karaf

The trackers are available as Apache Karaf features:

features:addUrl mvn:org.ow2.petals.trackers/features/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/xml/features
features:install rest-tracker

TODOs

• Configure root path
• Service unregistration
• Bundle Tracker: This can be a huge task to handle dependency injection ie we can detect annotated classes, etc...
• SOAP support (easy to add, but not so useful...)