Package org.eclipse.rap.rwt.osgi

Interface ApplicationLauncher

public interface ApplicationLauncher

A launcher for RWT applications in the OSGi environment. An instance of this interface will be available at runtime as an OSGi service.

Instead of using the ApplicationLauncher directly, an ApplicationConfiguration can be provided as a service. For every available application configuration, the RWT OSGi integration bundle will automatically start an application at an available HTTPService.

Since:

1.5

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	PROPERTY_CONTEXT_NAME	The name of a service property for an ApplicationConfiguration service to define a context name for the application.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ApplicationReference	launch(ApplicationConfiguration configuration, HttpService httpService, HttpContext httpContext, String contextName, String contextDirectory)	Launches an application with the given configuration at the given HTTPService.

Field Details

PROPERTY_CONTEXT_NAME

static final String PROPERTY_CONTEXT_NAME

The name of a service property for an ApplicationConfiguration service to define a context name for the application. For example, when an ApplicationConfiguration is registered as a service with a property contextName set to example, its entrypoints will be available at http://host/example/entrypointName.

For declarative services, add this element to the component declaration:

 <property name="contextName" type="String" value="example"/>
 

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Method Details

launch

ApplicationReference launch(ApplicationConfiguration configuration,
 HttpService httpService,
 HttpContext httpContext,
 String contextName,
 String contextDirectory)

Launches an application with the given configuration at the given HTTPService.

Parameters:

configuration - the configuration of the application to start

httpService - the http service to start the application at

httpContext - the http context to use, or null to use the default context

contextName - the context name of the application, defines the first URL path segment to the application

contextDirectory - the name of a directory to store static web resources

Returns:

a reference to the application started

Since:

2.0