ADempiere/Equinox Integration 2

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Approach 2: Embedding ADempiere in Equinox

Status

• Swing client can be fired up inside equinox.
• very few tests applied

Idea

The idea is simple:

• Turn adempiere projects into bundles.
  • org.adempiere.base: Core functionality
  • org.adempiere.tools: Supporting libs
  • org adempiere.client: Swing client
• Throw these bundles into equinox
• Watch it running
• Start further decomposing it
  • Define some kind of core interface

Quickstart

• Code is in https://adempiere.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/adempiere/branches/osgi/approach2 - this is a "real" svn branch - check it out!
• Use multiple project setup
  • Simple trick on slow sf.net to get into multiple project setup: Do one checkout, rename top-level .project file, import projects into workspace
• Open base/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF, press the "export deployable plugins and fragments" icon in the top-right corner
• select all plugins
• choose equinox-target as the output directory
• Finish
• on commandline, cd to equinox-target
• java -jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.5.0.v20090520.jar -console -clean
• Enter ss, verify your three plugins are RESOLVED
• Enter start 4 (id of org.adempiere.client) and watch adempiere starting

Problems sawn

• client code in base: this code has no access eg. on resources in client.
  • First core interface defined: IResourceFinder
  • Adempiere.class.getResource() converted to Adempiere.getResource() - which in turn uses IResourceHandler
• Postgres Driver in tools is java 1.6? - Have to use a 1.6 VM!