Apache Felix Subproject Documentation¶
Building Apache Felix¶
The Felix project is organized into subprojects, where each subproject targets a specific OSGi specification or OSGi-related technology. Most of these projects are in a single git repository, some have moved into separate git repositories.
Use the below table of subprojects to find the git repository for that subproject, if you want to checkout the main git repository with most subprojects use git clone https://github.com/apache/felix-dev.git, otherwise use the git repository mentioned in the table.
To get started:
- Most Apache Felix projects use Apache Maven as the build tool. Therefore, download and install the latest Apache Maven 3 release.
- Check out or update the git repository (see above).
- Go to the sub project you're interested in and type: "mvn clean install" to build it. If this project is not using Maven, refer to the docs for the subproject on how to build it.
Active subprojects¶
| Name | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Atomos | An OSGi module connector that enables loading bundles in a variety of environments, such as, jlink image, native-image, Android and flat class path. | source |
| Config Admin | An implementation of the OSGi Configuration Admin service specification for managing bundle configuration properties. | source |
| Dependency Manager | An API-based component model to simplify OSGi-based development. | source |
| Event Admin | An implementation of the OSGi Event Admin service specification for event-based communication. | source |
| File Install | A simple, directory-based management agent for managing bundle deployment. | source |
| Framework | An implementation of the OSGi R7 core framework. | source |
| Framework Security | source | |
| Gogo | An advanced shell for interacting with OSGi frameworks. | source |
| Health Checks | An extensible framework to monitor the status of the OSGi container at runtime. | source |
| HTTP Service | An implementation of the OSGi HTTP Whiteboard and Http Service specification. | source |
| Inventory Printer | A simple and extensible framework to retrieve inventory information about applications running in an OSGi Framework. | source |
| iPOJO | A sophisticated service-oriented component model to simplify OSGi-based development. | source |
| Log | A simple, memory-based implementation of the OSGi Log service specification. | source |
| Logback | Apache Felix Logback is a small integration of the Logback backend with OSGi. | source |
| Maven Bundle Plugin | A Maven plugin to simplify building bundles. | source |
| Metatype | An implementation of the OSGi Metatype service to describe types needed by bundles. | source |
| OSGi Bundle Repository | A bundle repository service to simplify discovering and deploying bundles and their dependencies. | source |
| Preferences Service | An implementation of the OSGi Preferences service specification for storing settings and preferences. | source |
| Remote Shell | A remote, text-based interface to the Apache Felix Shell. | source |
| Service Component Runtime | An implementation of the OSGi Declarative Services specification providing a service-oriented component model to simplify OSGi-based development. | source |
| Shell | A very simple shell service implemented as a bundle for interacting with an OSGi framework instance. | source |
| Shell TUI | A simple, text-based interface to the Apache Felix Shell. | source |
| Web Console | A simple tool to inspect and manage OSGi framework instances using your favorite Web Browser. | source |
Maintenance¶
The following projects are in maintenance mode meaning there is no active development anymore.