•  • 

Trick to customize war deployment on ServiceMix4 using PAX

Here is another very interesting trick that you can use to the war the deployment process on ServiceMix.

customize in this context, this word means How can I add property or extend existing of a MANIFEST file

e.g. : The WAR to be deployed contains tlb files created under the folder WEB-INF/tags/form and WEB-INF/tags/jms. By default PAX will create a MANIFEST file containing the property Bundle-Classpath with :

* WEB-INF/classes
* all jars from WEB-INF/lib directory

but will not take care about your folders

Two possibilities are available to tell to PAX that it must include in the Bundle-Classpath your folders

1) Command + uri

This one consists in to pass the parameters as an uri like this : install war:file:///d:/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.war?Bundle-Classpath= ., WEB-INF/tags/form, WEB-INF/tags/jms&Webapp-Context= activemqweb

2) Create a file.bnd + command Another interesting option is to provide as a file the location of the WAR and the properties that you want to add

* Create a file called xxxx.bnd
* Add in the file the following lines : WAR-URL=file:///c/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.war<br/>Bundle-Classpath=., WEB-INF/tags/form, WEB-INF/tags/jms<br/>Webapp-Context=activemqweb
  • use in your favorite OSGI server (ServiceMix) the following command to install the WAR :
  • install war-i:file:///c:/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.bnd