[FELIX-2049] extend org.apache.felix.karaf.testing.Helper to emit a karaf-specific execution environment file for pax-runner

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: karaf-1.4.0
• Fix Version/s: karaf-1.4.0
• Component/s: Karaf
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Eoghan Glynn
• Created: 06/Feb/10 01:12
• Updated: 09/Feb/10 10:51
• Resolved: 09/Feb/10 10:51

Description

I've been looking into rebasing an existing test on the new org.apache.felix.karaf.testing.Helper class, but I don't think it goes quite far enough in imposing the karaf runtime environment on pax-runner. Specifically, just pulling in the config.properties settings related to the system.packages doesn't stop pax-runner generating a system packages list with its own notion of what packages are appropriate for the current JRE version.

So for Java6 we end up with problematic entries like javax.xml.ws*, javax.activation etc. which cause trouble for any bundles doing version-constrained imports of these packages (because equinox assigns "0.0" as the version for system packages).

What's needed, I think, is for the Helper to generate a pax-runner execution environment file, named say target/paxrunner/platform/ee/karaf/jre-1.

{5|6}.profile, and containing the correct set of system packages for karaf (i.e. the org.osgi.framework.system.packages property read from the config.properties with the jre-1.{5|6}

variable substituted in). The Helper should also set rawPaxRunnerOption("--ee", "file://./target/paxrunner/platform/ee/karaf/jre-1.

{5|6}

.profile") as one of the default options.

Feedback welcome if I'm on the wrong track with this. But if there are no objections, I'll go ahead and code this up & then submit a patch.