The Apache Felix Web Console is a simple tool to inspect and manage OSGi framework instances using your favourite Web Browser.

Requirements

The Web Console only has a single required dependency on the framework: A running implementation of the OSGi Http Service Specification. The reason for this is, that the Web Console is implemented as a servlet (actually just a gateway servlet dispatching to Web Console plugins) which is registered with the Http Service. If your framework does not yet have a Http Service installed, you might select from a variety of such implementations. The following is just an incomplete list:

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If you happen to deploy an OSGi framework instance inside a traditional web application and thus the Http Service implementation is actually a bridge into the existing servlet container (see for example Equinox in a Servlet Container or the Apache Sling Launchpad Web application), the host, port and context path are defined by your servlet container and web application deployment. For example, if the servlet container listens on host sample.org at port 8888 and the web application with your OSGi container is available in the /osgi context, the Web Console would be accessible at http\://sample.org:8888/osgi/system/consoleImage Added.

Security

The Web Console only has very basic security at the moment supporting only HTTP Basic authentication. This security is enabled by default and may be disabled by simply clearing the username property.

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