[CXF-5234] Simple Frontend Client Proxy does not work with Blueprint

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.10, 2.7.7
• Component/s: Simple Frontend

Environment

Running within Karaf 2.3.2

• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Daniel Kulp
• Reporter: Zsolt Beothy-Elo
• Created: 26/Aug/13 15:21
• Updated: 27/Sep/13 18:18
• Resolved: 26/Aug/13 16:56

Description

If I define a Simple Frontend client in my Blueprint configuration

 
<blueprint xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/core"
    xmlns:sf="http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/simple"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
  http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/core http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/blueprint/core.xsd
  http://cxf.apache.org/blueprint/simple http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/blueprint/simple.xsd
  ">

  <bean id="customerApplication"
      class="com.example.ba.application.customer.consumer.CustomerApplication"
      init-method="startUp" destroy-method="shutdown">
    <property name="customerService" ref="customServiceClient" />
  </bean>

  <sf:client id="customServiceClient"
      serviceClass="com.example.customerservice.CustomerService"
      address="http://localhost:8181/cxf/CustomerService">
    <sf:dataBinding>
      <bean class="org.apache.cxf.aegis.databinding.AegisDatabinding"/>
    </sf:dataBinding>
  </sf:client>

</blueprint>

and deploy the bundle to Karaf I get an

  
org.osgi.service.blueprint.container.ComponentDefinitionException: Unresolved ref/idref to component: customServiceClient 

from aries, see the attachment for the complete exception. When using a corresponding Spring configuration the client works fine. Looking into org/apache/cxf/frontend/blueprint/SimpleBPNamespaceHandler.java in the simple frontend module I think some parts of the implementation are simply missing, but this of course only a wild guess.