Trick to customize war deployment on ServiceMix4 using PAX

Follow @cmoulliard Here is another very interesting trick that you can use to customize the war the deployment process on ServiceMix.

customize = in this context, this word means How can I add property or extend existing of a MANIFEST file

e.g. : The WAR to be deployed contains tlb files created under the folder WEB-INF/tags/form and WEB-INF/tags/jms. By default PAX will create a MANIFEST file containing the property Bundle-Classpath with :

• WEB-INF/classes
• all jars from WEB-INF/lib directory

but will not take care about your folders

Two possibilities are available to tell to PAX that it must include in the Bundle-Classpath your folders

1) Command + uri

This one consists in to pass the parameters as an uri like this :

install war:file:///d:/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.war?Bundle-Classpath= ., WEB-INF/tags/form, WEB-INF/tags/jms&Webapp-Context= activemqweb

2) Create a file.bnd + command

Another interesting option is to provide as a file the location of the WAR and the properties that you want to add

• Create a file called xxxx.bnd
• Add in the file the following lines :

WAR-URL=file:///c/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.war
Bundle-Classpath=., WEB-INF/tags/form, WEB-INF/tags/jms
Webapp-Context=activemqweb

• use in your favorite OSGI server (ServiceMix) the following command to install the WAR :

install war-i:file:///c:/temp/activemq-web-console-5.2.0.bnd