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Developer(s) | Apache Software Foundation |
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Initial release | 28 July 2007 |
Stable release | 7.0.5
/ June 3, 2022[1] |
Repository | Felix Repository |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Size | 2.5 MB (zip) / 2.4 MB (tar.gz) |
Type | OSGi Service Platform |
License | Apache License 2.0 |
Website | felix |
Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Core Release 6 framework specification.[2] The initial codebase was donated from the Oscar project at ObjectWeb.[3] The developers worked on Felix for a full year and have made various improvements while retaining the original footprint and performance. On June 21, 2007, the project graduated from incubation as a top level project and is considered the smallest size software at Apache Software Foundation.
Running Felix
[edit]To run Apache Felix OSGi, you need to download the felix-framework-4.x.x.tar.gz or felix-framework-4.x.x.zip compressed file from the site. Once you have extracted the Felix framework distribution, from the command line in the extracted directory type the following:
java -jar bin/felix.jar
After bundles are installed and running, typing a command like help from the console will display all available commands, which are:
- bundlelevel <level> <id> ... | <id> - set or get bundle start level.
- cd [<base-URL>] - change or display base URL.
- find <bundle-name> - display bundles matching substring.
- headers [<id> ...] - display bundle header properties.
- help - display impl commands.
- inspect - inspect dependency information (e.g., packages, service, etc.).
- install <URL> [<URL> ...] - install bundle(s).
- log [<max>] [error|warn|info|debug] - list recent log entries.
- obr help - OSGi bundle repository.
- ps [-l | -s | -u] - list installed bundles.
- refresh [<id> ...] - refresh packages.
- resolve [<id> ...] - attempt to resolve the specified bundles.
- shutdown - shutdown framework.
- start <id> [<id> <URL> ...] - start bundle(s).
- startlevel [<level>] - get or set framework start level.
- stop <id> [<id> ...] - stop bundle(s).
- sysprop [-r] [<key>] [<value>] - Display, set, modify and remove system properties.
- uninstall <id> [<id> ...] - uninstall bundle(s).
- update <id> [<URL>] - update bundle.
- version - display version of framework.
Version history
[edit]Felix Framework Distribution
Version | OSGi spec support | Release date |
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7.0.0 | R7 | December 25, 2020 |
6.0.3 | R6 | May 2, 2019 |
6.0.2 | R6 | January 31, 2019 |
6.0.1 | R6 | August 20, 2018 |
5.2.0 | R6 | September 25, 2015 |
5.0.1 | R6 | June 21, 2015 |
5.0.0 | R4 | April 24, 2015 |
4.6.1 | R4 | March 8, 2015 |
Subprojects
[edit]List of subprojects of which the Apache Felix framework consists.
Component | Latest version | Released |
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AutoConf Resource Processor | 0.1.8 | January 16, 2016 |
Bundle Repository | 2.0.10 | April 21, 2017 |
Configuration Admin | 1.9.16 | June 15, 2019 |
Connect | 0.2.0 | May 25, 2018 |
Configurator | 1.0.10 | June 15, 2019 |
Converter | 1.0.10 | August 26, 2019 |
Coordinator | 1.0.2 | November 9, 2015 |
Dependency Manager 4 | r15 | December 23, 2018 |
Deployment Admin | 0.9.10 | January 16, 2016 |
Event Admin | 1.5.0 | May 4, 2018 |
File Install | 3.6.4 | October 23, 2017 |
Framework Security | 2.6.1 | August 16, 2018 |
Framework | 6.0.3 | May 2, 2019 |
Gogo | 5 | January 14, 2019 |
Gogo BOM | 1.0.2 | January 14, 2019 |
Gogo Command | 1.1.0 | January 10, 2019 |
Gogo JLine | 1.1.4 | January 28, 2019 |
Gogo Runtime | 1.1.0 | January 10, 2019 |
Gogo Shell | 1.1.0 | January 10, 2019 |
Health Check Annotations | 2.0.0 | February 25, 2019 |
Health Check API | 2.0.2 | May 20, 2019 |
Health Check Core | 2.0.6 | May 20, 2019 |
Health Check General Checks | 2.0.4 | May 13, 2019 |
Health Check Webconsole Plugin | 2.0.0 | February 25, 2019 |
HTTP Service API | 3.0.0 | August 5, 2015 |
HTTP Service Base | 4.0.8 | September 7, 2019 |
HTTP Service Bridge | 4.0.10 | September 7, 2019 |
HTTP Service Bundle | 3.0.0 | January 29, 2015 |
HTTP Service Cometd | 2.3.2 | November 5, 2014 |
HTTP Service Jetty | 4.0.14 | September 12, 2019 |
HTTP Service Proxy | 3.0.6 | May 15, 2019 |
HTTP Service Reactor | 5 | November 5, 2014 |
HTTP Service SSL filter | 1.2.6 | October 19, 2018 |
HTTP Service Whiteboard | 4.0.0 | April 26, 2018 |
HTTP Servlet 2.6 + 3.0 API | 1.1.2 | August 5, 2015 |
Inventory Printer | 1.0.6 | December 5, 2017 |
iPOJO (Core) | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Annotations | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO API | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Architecture Command for Gogo | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Architecture Command for the Felix Shell | 1.6.0 | April 16, 2010 |
iPOJO BND Plugin | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Composite | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Event Admin handler | 1.8.0 | May 11, 2011 |
iPOJO Extender pattern handler | 1.4.0 | July 21, 2009 |
iPOJO JMX handler | 1.4.0 | July 21, 2009 |
IPOJO Karaf Features | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Manipulator Project (containing all iPOJO manipulator modules) | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Manipulator | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Manipulator BOM | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Maven Plugin | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Metadata | 1.6.0 | December 6, 2011 |
iPOJO Runtime Project (containing all iPOJO runtime modules) | 1.12.1 | December 16, 2014 |
iPOJO Temporal Dependency handler | 1.6.0 | May 16, 2010 |
iPOJO URL Handler | 1.6.0 | April 16, 2010 |
iPOJO WebConsole Plugin | 1.7.0 | May 15, 2013 |
iPOJO Whiteboard pattern handler | 1.6.0 | July 3, 2011 |
Jaas Support Boot Classpath Jar | 1.0.2 | |
Jaas Support Bundle | 1.0.2 | February 13, 2017 |
junit4osgi - maven plugin | 1.0.0 | May 1, 2009 |
junit4osgi - shell command | 1.0.0 | May 1, 2009 |
junit4osgi - swing gui | 1.0.0 | May 1, 2009 |
junit4osgi | 1.0.0 | April 30, 2009 |
Lightweight HTTP Service Complete | 0.1.6 | May 5, 2017 |
Lightweight HTTP Service Core | 0.1.6 | May 5, 2017 |
Lightweight HTTP Service Reactor | 0.1.6 | May 5, 2017 |
Logback | 1.0.2 | January 22, 2019 |
Main | 6.0.3 | May 2, 2019 |
Metatype | 1.2.2 | September 26, 2018 |
OBR Maven plugin | 1.2.0 | February 14, 2008 |
OSGi Check Maven Plugin | 0.1.0 | September 23, 2018 |
OSGi OBR service API | 1.0.2 | Apilr 25, 2008 |
Preferences | 1.1.0 | October 12, 2016 |
Remote Shell | 1.2.0 | November 25, 2016 |
Resolver | 2.0.0 | July 3, 2018 |
SCR (Declarative Services) | 2.1.16 | February 26, 2019 |
SCR Annotations | 1.12.0 | October 13, 2016 |
SCR bnd Plugin | 1.9.4 | May 9, 2019 |
SCR Compat (Declarative Services) | 1.0.4 | July 6, 2016 |
SCR DS Annotations | 1.2.10 | September 8, 2017 |
SCR Ext Anno | 1.0.0 | July 10, 2016 |
SCR Generator | 1.18.2 | May 9, 2019 |
Shell Text UI | 1.4.1 | October 11, 2009 |
Shell | 1.4.3 | March 6, 2012 |
System Ready | 0.4.2 | April 5, 2019 |
UPnP Base Driver (JDK 1.3) | 0.8.0 | June 12, 2008 |
UPnP Base Driver (JDK 1.4+) | 0.8.0 | June 12, 2008 |
UPnP Extra | 0.4.0 | May 17, 2009 |
UPnP Tester | 0.4.0 | May 17, 2009 |
User Admin | 1.0.4 | June 20, 2019 |
User Admin File-based store | 1.0.2 | November 30, 2015 |
User Admin MongoDB-based store | 1.0.1 | November 30, 2012 |
Utils | 1.11.2 | December 11, 2018 |
Web Console | 4.3.14 | August 16, 2019 |
Web Console DS Plugin | 2.1.0 | September 23, 2018 |
Web Console Event Plugin | 1.1.8 | September 26, 2017 |
Web Console Memory Usage Plugin | 1.0.10 | April 2, 2019 |
Web Console OBR Plugin | 1.0.4 | May 5, 2017 |
Web Console Package Admin Plugin | 1.0.4 | February 17, 2017 |
Web Console Script Console Plugin | 1.0.2 | November 30, 2015 |
Web Console Service Diagnostics Plugin | 0.1.3 | September 16, 2013 |
Web Console Subsystems Plugin | 0.1.0 | November 30, 2015 |
Web Console UPNP Plugin | 1.0.6 | March 10, 2015 |
Web Console User Admin Plugin | 1.0.2 | March 10, 2015 |
Projects using Felix
[edit]The projects listed below highlight the adoption of Apache Felix:
- ServiceMix 4[4] - An open source ESB with an OSGi core. It also includes JBI support.
- Apache Sling - OSGi-based applications layer for JCR content repositories.
- EasyBeans - open source EJB 3 container.
- GlassFish (v3) - application server for Java EE.
- JOnAS 5 - open source Java EE 5 application server.
- JORAM and JoramMQ - open source messaging: JMS, AMQP and MQTT broker.
- Project Fuji in Open ESB v3 - Light weight and modular ESB core runtime.
- Jitsi (formerly known as SIP Communicator) - open source Java VoIP and multi-protocol instant messenger.
- modulefusion - open source collection for Java enterprise applications.
- NetBeans - The free MultiLanguage IDE.
- SOA Software - API Gateway application from Akana (formerly SOA Software).
- Spring Roo - RAD tool for Java-based enterprise applications
- Opencast Matterhorn - Open Source software to produce, manage and distribute academic audio and video content, especially lecture recordings.
- JIRA - JIRA supports plug-ins as OSGi bundles.
- Adobe Experience Manager - Enterprise content management system and digital asset management developed by Adobe Inc.
See also
[edit]- OSGi Alliance
- Apache Aries, a Blueprint Container implementations and extensions of application-focused specifications defined by OSGi Enterprise Expert Group
- Equinox
- Concierge OSGi
References
[edit]- ^ "News :: Apache Felix". felix.apache.org. Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
- ^ "OSGi Certified Products". OSGi Alliance Site. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
- ^ "Project Oscar hosted at ObjectWeb". Archived from the original on 2005-06-13. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
- ^ Home page for the Apache ServiceMix 4 Archived September 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine