[rabbitmq-discuss] OSGi Demo for RabbitMQ Client

Thu Apr 10 11:14:16 BST 2008

Alexis,

This is mainly of interest to people already using OSGi, including of
course anybody developing Eclipse RCP applications or plug-ins. They
can take the two "bundleized" JARs and drop them into their OSGi
framework as-is. Several ESB-type middleware platforms are also moving
to OSGi (eg Mule, ServiceMix) and looking at RabbitMQ, so they should
consider using these JARs.

For those not already using OSGi, I can only really describe the
general benefits, namely: a strong, mature module system for Java with
explicit, versioned dependencies; dynamically hot-swappable modules;
side-by-side versions, etc. I believe most middleware platforms will
see an increasing need for these features in the near future.

Regards,
Neil

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Alexis Richardson
<alexis.richardson at cohesiveft.com> wrote:
> Neil,
>
>  Thanks very much for this!  Perhaps it would be useful to folks not
>  yet familiar with the benefits of OSGi to explain what this gets them.
>
>  Everyone,
>
>  If you are in London, Neil is doing a talk on OSGi next Monday at
>  Merrills.  Please contact us if you are interested in attending.
>
>  alexis
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Neil Bartlett <njbartlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  >  With Tony's help I have put together a small demo of using RabbitMQ
>  >  Client in an OSGi environment. The demo simply has two bundles (the
>  >  OSGi term for a module): a producer bundle and a consumer bundle. They
>  >  each hook into the bundle lifecycle so the produce/consume threads can
>  >  be started and stopped from the OSGi console.
>  >
>  >  To download, fetch from my darcs repository:
>  >
>  >         darcs get http://neilbartlett.name/darcs/rabbitmq-client-osgi
>  >
>  >  Instructions to build and run are in the readme:
>  >
>  >         http://neilbartlett.name/darcs/rabbitmq-client-osgi/README.TXT
>  >
>  >  The directory is setup as an Eclipse project, so you should be able to
>  >  import it using the "Existing Projects" import wizard. However there
>  >  is no dependency on Eclipse, so you can open it in IntelliJ, NetBeans,
>  >  emacs or vi if you choose.
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >  Neil
>  >
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