AIOLOS Application Example

This project uses the AIOLOS framework which is automatically downloaded when this app is run. This project can only be run when a released version of the AIOLOS Framework is downloadable on http://openstack1.test/.

The framework uses Felix OSGi Container and a Cloud Environment (currently OpenStack) to develop distributed applications.

An application is developed inside Eclipse with BNDTools. Documentation on developing with BNDTools can be found on BNDTools.

The projects

The example application consists of 6 projects: the Bndtools configuration project cnf, some application implementation bundles org.example.api, org.example.impls and org.example.servlet, an Android client application org.example.android and the AIOLOS tools project.

The Bndtools configuration project

Bndtools uses a cnf project to keep workspace specific settings. Various settings can be configured in the ext/defaults.bnd file, such as Java Compiler and BND options. In the ext/repositories.bnd file you can configure which BND plugins to use, and which repositories should be used to provision your OSGi runtime.

The cnf project also contains local repositories. The localrepo folder is used for 3rd party libraries that are required by this project and are not available in an online repository. The releaserepo folder is used to deploy the artifacts to when using the Bndtools release feature.

The implementation bundles

The implementation projects org.example.api, org.example.impls and org.example.servlet are regular Bndtools projects that contain an example OSGi application. The org.example.api project contains the API that provides the Greeting service. In org.example.impls two implementations of this Greeting service are provided, as well as a Gogo shell command to invoke the service from command line. The org.example.servlet project provides a HttpService to make the service available from a web interface. These are regular OSGi projects, that use the Declarative Services specification for binding services. These bundles are not dependent in any way of AIOLOS, and the Greeting application can run standalone without AIOLOS using the .bndrun configurations in org.example.impls or org.example.servlet.

The Android client application

The org.example.android project is an example project on how to develop an Android application that will be registered as an AIOLOS node. To build and run this project, you will need to use our Androsgi build tools that enable to run OSGi on top of Android. Check the androsgi repository for more info.

The AIOLOS tools project

The tools project contains all necessary scripts and configurations to run the application on the AIOLOS cloud platform.

It contains the following directories:

• configs

  This contains all configuration files required to configure AIOLOS related OSGi bundles, i.e. the CloudManager and Repository. Three subdirectories are present: local, containing configuration files for local testing, and openstack for testing on an OpenStack cloud, and ec2 to test on the Amazon EC2 public cloud.

  The Repository configuration file contains a comma-separated list of urls to all repositories should be offered by the Repository service, or thus repositories that contain bundles that one should be able to start on the nodes at runtime. An url can be both a http url, or a (relative) file path. By default these are the local repositories containing the application bundles.

• resources

  The resources directory contains a copy of one of the configs maps that is currently used for running. The and build system will copy the correct configuration files when running ant run.

• scripts

  The scripts directory contains a number of utility scripts to generate an OSGi repository and generate an index of the repository.

• *.bndrun

  The tools project also contains .bndrun files that are used to start up the nodes with AIOLOS. Three predefined .bndruns exist:

  • run-mgmt.bndrun : this is the first node started when using the ant run command. This is the so-called management node, that starts various management bundles such as the CloudManager, the PlatformManager and the Webconsole UI. You can add additional application specific bundles to this .bndrun files that you want to have running on this node. In the case of the example application, this one also contains the servlet and command bundles.
  • run-vm.bndrun : this .bndrun is used when you click the "New Node" button in the Webconsole UI. This contains the basic AIOLOS bundles, and some application specific bundles you want on each Node. In the case of the example application, this one contains the implementations of the Greeting service.
  • run-vm-empty.bndrun : this .bndrun contains the minimum required AIOLOS bundles, without any application-specific bundles. This one is used when you click the "Empty Node" button in the Webconsole UI, and is used as basis for scaling components.

  Other custom .bndrun files can be provided, i.e. a file to run all components on one runtime to test the application without distribution of bundles.

The build system

AIOLOS uses Ant as its build system. The top-level project provides the following ant build targets:

• clean

  Will remove all build artifacts such as .class and .jar files from the projects.

• build

  Will compile and build all projects.

• junit

  Will run all junit tests (if provided) in all projects.

• run

  Will start an AIOLOS management OSGi runtime. Use -Dconfig=xxx to specify which configuration to use. The default config is local

• kill

  Will kill all running VMs when a cloud config is used. Use -Dconfig=xxx to specify which configuration to use.