Chapter 1. Deploying using an OSGi bundle

Apache Karaf is structured to use OSGi functionality. For more information about the structure of Apache Karaf see Chapter 2, Introduction to OSGi.

An OSGi bundle is a collection of JAR files with configuration files, bundled up into a JAR. For more information about creating OSGi bundles see Chapter 3, Building an OSGi Bundle.

Before following the instructions make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites:

For this example we will use a quickstart, which is a ready-prepared bundle. Quickstarts can be found in FUSE_HOME/quickstarts

To find out more about how to build your own OSGi bundle, see Section 3.1, “Generating a Bundle Project” .

The OSGi bundle is deployed into a running Apache Karaf instance.

12:07:34.542 INFO [Camel (log-example-context) thread #1 - timer://foo] >>> Hello from Fuse based Camel route! :
12:07:39.530 INFO [Camel (log-example-context) thread #1 - timer://foo] >>> Hello from Fuse based Camel route! :
12:07:44.530 INFO [Camel (log-example-context) thread #1 - timer://foo] >>> Hello from Fuse based Camel route! :

For more information about deploying OSGi bundles, see Chapter 5, Hot deployment vs manual deployment.