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Note

This plugin is only experimental and hasn't been released yet. It is not ready to be used in production applications.

Demo

This simple demo contains an empty web application and a bundle jar with 2 actions that use FreeMarker, Velocity and Spring. To use it install the war file struts2-osgi-demo-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war in your server and navigate to: http://localhost/struts2-osgi-demo-1.0-SNAPSHOT/.

The Struts 2 OSGi plugin

Excerpt

leverages OSGi to allow Struts 2 applications to be divided into multiple jars (bundles) and managed at runtime

. It allows you to separate your application into jars (called bundles), each containing a struts.xml file, Action classes, and Velocity (for now) files.
The demo is available here

Features

  • GUI for bundle administration
  • Web access to Felix Shell
  • Application packages can be divided into bundles
  • Supports Velocity and FreeMarker templates
  • Supports Struts Spring integration
  • Supports integration with the Convention plugin

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  • Probably can't access application classes from bundles, including Spring classes

About Run levels

Application bundles should go under /WEB-INF/classes/bundles. Bundles in this dir will be started in run level 2, the Apache Felix framework's bundles will be loaded in run level 1. Any other bundle under /WEB-INF/classes/bundles/other will be started in run level 3.

Simple Usage

Add these lines to MANIFEST.MF:

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