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Apache Karaf Christmas gifts: docker.io, profiles, and decanter
We are heading to Christmas time, and the Karaf team wanted to prepare some gifts for you 😉 Of course, we are working hard in the preparation of the new Karaf releases. A bunch of bug fixes and…
Read More »Encrypt ConfigAdmin properties values in Apache Karaf
Apache Karaf loads all the configuration from etc/*.cfg files by default, using a mix of Felix FileInstall and Felix ConfigAdmin. These files are regular properties file looking like: Some values may be critical, and so not store in…
Read More »MDC logging with Apache Karaf and Camel
MDC (Mapped Diagnostic Context) logging is an interesting feature to log contextual messages. It’s classic to want to log contextual messages in your application. For instance, we want to log the actions performed by an user (identified by…
Read More »Testing (utest and itest) Apache Camel Blueprint route
In any integration project, testing is vital for multiple reasons: to guarantee that the integration logic matches the expectations to quickly identify some regression issues to test some special cases, like the errors for instance to validate the…
Read More »Apache Syncope backend with Apache Karaf
Apache Syncope is an identity manager (IdM). It comes with a web console where you can manage users, attributes, roles, etc. It also comes with a REST API allowing to integrate with other applications. By default, Syncope has…
Read More »Apache Karaf, Cellar, Camel, ActiveMQ monitoring with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana)
Apache Karaf, Cellar, Camel, and ActiveMQ provides a lot of information via JMX. More over, another very useful source of information is in the log files. If these two sources are very interesting, for a “real life” monitoring,…
Read More »Coming in Karaf 3.0.0: new enterprise JPA (OpenJPA, Hibernate) and CDI (OpenWebBeans, JBoss Weld) features
Apache Karaf 3.0.0 is now mostly ready (I’m just polishing the documentation). In previous post, I introduced new enterprise features like JNDI, JDBC, JMS. As I said, the purpose is to provide a full flexible enterprise ready container,…
Read More »Coming in Karaf 3.0.0: new enterprise JMS feature
In my previous post, I introduced the new enterprise JDBC feature. To follow the same purpose, we introduced the new enterprise JMS feature. JMS feature Like the JDBC feature, the JMS feature is an optional one. It means…
Read More »Coming in Karaf 3.0.0: new enterprise JDBC feature
Some weeks (months ;)) ago, my colleague Christian (Schneider) did a good job by creating some useful commands to manipulate databases directly in Karaf. We discussed together where to put those commands. We decided to submit a patch…
Read More »Coming in Karaf 3.0.0: new enterprise JNDI feature
In previous Karaf version (2.x), the JNDI support was “basic”. We just leveraged Aries JNDI to support the osgi:service JNDI scheme to reference the OSGi services using JNDI name. However, we didn’t provide a fully functionnal JNDI initial…
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