Karaf EE

Karaf EE project is a packaging of the Karaf Standalone Container (2.3.1) with EJB & CDI technology. Currently it supports these Apache implementations of the EJB 3 spec and CDI 1.0 : OpenEJB and OpenWebbeans

Build

• Prerequisite

The Karaf feature file openejb which contains the modules (bundles, configurations files, ...) that we will use for KarafEE project must be installed locally in your local maven repo as this file is not longer maintained by OpenEJB - TomEE project

Copy feature.xml to your local repository

.m2/repository/org/apache/openejb/openejb-feature/4.5.2

• Build the project

mvn clean install

During the build process, a Karaf distribution will be generated. This tar.gz file is available under the directory apache-karafee/target/.

Run KarafEE

Untar the karafEE distribution tar -vxf apache-karafee-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz, move to the bin directory of apache-karafee-1.0-SNAPSHOT/bin in your terminal and launch ./karafee command Karaf Container will be launched in standalone mode and the console will appear soon

./karafee
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  Apache KarafEE (1.0-SNAPSHOT)

Hit '<tab>' for a list of available commands
and '[cmd] --help' for help on a specific command.
Hit '<ctrl-d>' or 'osgi:shutdown' to shutdown KarafEE.

You can verify that OpenEJB & CDI is well deployed and some EJB beans have already been registered using this command

openejb:list
=========================================================================================================================================================================================
           Name            |                             Class                             |                                 Interface Type                                 | Bean Type |
=========================================================================================================================================================================================
 openejb/ConfigurationInfo | org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.cmd.ConfigurationInfoEjb | Remote[[interface org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.cmd.ConfigurationInfo]] | STATELESS |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           MEJB            |               org.apache.openejb.mgmt.MEJBBean                |                                                                                | STATELESS |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     openejb/Deployer      |           org.apache.openejb.assembler.DeployerEjb            |           Remote[[interface org.apache.openejb.assembler.Deployer]]            | STATELESS |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       openejb/User        |           org.apache.openejb.assembler.util.UserEjb           |           Remote[[interface org.apache.openejb.assembler.util.User]]           | STATELESS |
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Make a test

TODO - Add links to EJB & CDI examples