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Declarative OSGi Services

I have a question about declarative OSGi Services. I have the following interface : 

  public interface PrintService {
    public void print();
  }

and its implementation: 

    public class PrintServiceImpl implements PrintService {

      @Override
      public void print() {
        System.out.println("Hello from PrintServiceImpl!");
      }
    }

OSGI-INF/component.xml :

<scr:component xmlns:scr="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/scr/v1.1.0" name="service">
   <implementation class="service.PrintServiceImpl"/>
   <service>
      <provide interface="print.PrintService"/>
   </service>
</scr:component>

MANIFEST.MF :

Service-Component: OSGI-INF/component.xml

After I install the service and start it nothing happend. How can I activate it and print "Hello from PrintServiceImpl!" to console.

Solution

  • Why do you expect your print method to be invoked? It is part of the interface of the service, so it will not be invoked until you can a client that binds to it and calls it.

    If you type the services command in the console you should see that your bundle is publishing the print.PrintService service; this means that your component is working. If you don't see this then you may be missing something like the SCR bundle as suggested by Tom Seidel in the comments above.