SpringSource Application Platform Programmer Guide
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SpringSource Application Platform Programmer Guide

Ramnivas Laddad

Colin Yates

Sam Brannen

Rob Harrop

Christian Dupuis

SpringSource Application Platform

1.0.0.RC1

Copyright © SpringSource Inc., 2008

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Prerequisites
2.1. Runtime Environment
2.2. References
3. Introduction to the SpringSource Application Platform
3.1. Overview
3.2. What is the SpringSource Application Platform?
3.2.1. What makes up the SpringSource Application Platform?
3.3. Why the SpringSource Application Platform?
3.3.1. Deployment options and migration paths
3.3.2. Simplified development and deployment of OSGi-based applications
3.3.3. Enhanced diagnostics during deployment and in production
4. Deployment Architecture
4.1. Supported Deployment Formats
4.1.1. Raw OSGi Bundles
4.1.2. WAR Deployment Formats
4.1.2.1. Standard WAR
4.1.2.2. Shared Libraries WAR
4.1.2.3. Shared Services WAR
4.1.3. Web Modules
4.1.4. Platform Archives
4.2. Dependency Types
4.3. A guide to forming bundles
5. Developing Applications
5.1. Anatomy of a bundle
5.2. Packaging
5.2.1. Platform Archives
5.2.2. Module
5.2.3. Web Modules
5.2.3.1. Web Module Manifest Headers
5.2.3.2. Web Module web.xml Fragments
5.2.4. WARs
5.3. Programmatic Access to Personality-specific Features
5.3.1. Programmatic Access to Web Personality Features
5.3.1.1. Programmatic Access to the ApplicationContext
5.3.1.2. Programmatic Access to the BundleContext
5.4. Automatic Imports
5.4.1. Automatic Imports for the Web Personality
5.5. Working with dependencies
5.5.1. Importing libraries
5.5.2. Importing bundles
5.5.3. Defining libraries
5.5.4. Installing dependencies
5.6. Application trace
5.6.1. Using vanilla Log4J
5.7. Application versioning
6. Migrating to OSGi
6.1. Migrating Web Applications
6.1.1. Standard WAR
6.1.2. Shared Libraries WAR
6.1.3. Shared Services WAR
6.1.4. Web Module
6.1.5. Web Migration Summary
6.2. Platform Archive
7. Case study: Migrating the Form Tags sample application.
7.1. Overview of the Form Tags Sample Application
7.2. Form Tags WAR
7.3. Form Tags Shared Libraries WAR
7.4. Form Tags Shared Services WAR
7.4.1. The Service Bundle
7.4.2. Accessing the Service and Types from the WAR
7.5. Form Tags PAR
7.5.1. Granularity of the PAR
7.5.2. Domain and Service Bundles
7.5.3. Form Tags Web Module
7.5.4. Constructing the PAR
7.6. Summary of the Form Tags Migration
8. Tooling
8.1. Installation
8.2. Running a SpringSource AP Instance within Eclipse
8.3. Bundle and Library Provisioning
8.4. Setting up Eclipse Projects
8.4.1. Creating New Projects
8.4.2. Migrating existing Java Projects
8.5. Developing OSGi Bundles
8.5.1. Resolving Bundle Dependencies
8.5.2. Editing the Manifest
8.6. Deploying Applications
9. Working with Common Enterprise Libraries
9.1. Working with Hibernate
9.1.1. Importing Hibernate
9.2. Working with DataSources
9.3. Weaving and Instrumentation
9.4. JSP Tag Libraries
10. Known Issues
10.1. JPA Entity Scanning
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