Lesson 2.5: Start the OSGi bundles

The WebSphere® eXtreme Scale server is packaged as an OSGi server bundle. Complete this lesson to install the eXtreme Scale server bundle as well as other OSGi bundles that you have installed.

1. Run the ss command to view the IDs for each bundle.

   osgi> ss
   
   Framework is launched.
   
   id State Bundle
   0 ACTIVE org.eclipse.osgi_3.6.1.R36x_v20100806
   1 ACTIVE org.eclipse.osgi.services_3.2.100.v20100503
   2 ACTIVE org.eclipse.osgi.util_3.2.100.v20100503
   3 ACTIVE org.eclipse.equinox.cm_1.0.200.v20100520
   4 ACTIVE com.springsource.org.apache.commons.logging_1.1.1
   5 ACTIVE com.springsource.org.aopalliance_1.0.0
   6 ACTIVE org.springframework.aop_3.0.5.RELEASE
   7 ACTIVE org.springframework.asm_3.0.5.RELEASE
   8 ACTIVE org.springframework.beans_3.0.5.RELEASE
   9 ACTIVE org.springframework.context_3.0.5.RELEASE
   10 ACTIVE org.springframework.core_3.0.5.RELEASE
   11 ACTIVE org.springframework.expression_3.0.5.RELEASE
   12 ACTIVE org.apache.felix.fileinstall_3.0.2
   13 ACTIVE net.luminis.cmc_0.2.5
   15 ACTIVE org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.core_1.0.0.RELEASE
   16 ACTIVE org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.extender_1.0.0.RELEASE
   17 ACTIVE org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.io_1.0.0.RELEASE
   19 RESOLVED com.ibm.websphere.xs.server_7.1.1
   21 RESOLVED Google_ProtoBuf_2.4.0
   22 RESOLVED ProtoBufPlugins_1.0.0

2. Start each bundle that you have installed. You must start the bundles in a specific order. See the order of the bundle IDs from the previous example.
   1. Start the sample plug-in bundle, ProtoBufPlugins_1.0.0.
      Run the following command in the Equinox OSGi console to start the bundle. In this example, the bundle ID of the sample plug-in is 22.

      osgi> start 22

   2. Start the Google Protocol Buffers bundle, Google_ProtoBuf_2.4.0.
      Run the following command in the Equinox OSGi console to start the bundle. In this example, the bundle ID of the Google Protocol Buffers plug-in is 21.

      osgi> start 21

   3. Start the server bundle, com.ibm.websphere.xs.server_7.1.1.
      Run the following command in the OSGi console to start the server. In this example, the bundle ID of the eXtreme Scale server bundle is 19.

      osgi> start 19

SystemOut O MyShardListener@1253853884(version=1.0.0) order
com.ibm.websphere.samples.xs.serializer.proto.DataObjects1$Order$Builder
@1aba1aba(22) inserted