THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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If you are in a hurry to have Apache Felix Karaf up and running right away, this section will provide you with some basic steps for downloading, building (when needed) and running the server in no time. This is clearly not a complete guide so you may want to check other sections of this guide for further information.
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Background
Apache Felix Karaf is a small and lightweight OSGi based runtime. This provides a small lightweight container onto which various bundles can be deployed.
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Apache Felix Karaf started life as the Apache ServiceMix kernel and then moved as a Apache Felix subproject. |
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Depending on the platform you plan to install and run Karaf you will select the appropriate installation image. Open a Web browser and access the following URL, there you will find the available packages for download (binaries and source code).
http://felixkaraf.apache.org/site/downloadsdownload.cgihtml
Select the file compression format compatible with your system (zip for windows, tar.gz for unixes) by clicking directly on the link, download it and expand the binary to your hard drive in a new directory; for example in z:\servicemix karaf - from now on this directory will be referenced as <KARAF_HOME>. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.
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With Karaf already installed, open a command line console and change directory to <SERVICEMIX<KARAF_HOME>. To start the server, run the following command in Windows:
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The example installed is using Camel to start a timer every 2 seconds and output a message on the console.
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This document showed you how simple it is to have Apache Felix Karaf up and running. The overall time for getting the server running should be less than five minutes if you have the prerequisite (Java 1.5) already installed. Additionally, this article also showed you how to deploy and test a simple Apache Camel application in less than five minutes.
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