Plugin Support

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Submitted by tanderson on Fri, 04/08/2017 - 16:10

Development Project Status: Completed

Total cost estimate (ex-Tax):

$3200

Due date for completion of this stage:

04/08/2017

Release:

2.0

Current Percentage Funded:

100.00%

Project funding:

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Project description:

This project will embed Apache Felix, an OSGi container, into OpenVPMS, to support the development and deployment of plugins.

It will include:

support to deploy and monitor plugins
support for OSGi Blueprint plugins
support to export OpenVPMS services so they are available to plugins
a set of basic services for plugins

It will provide a pre-packaged OSGi container to enable plugin deployment.

Configuration and Monitoring

A new Plugins tab will be added to Adminstration - System, to:

configure the directory where plugins are deployed from
monitor plugins
install new plugins

Plugin Services

The following plugin services will be provided initially:

ArchetypeInstaller - allows plugins to install archetypes into OpenVPMS
PluginConfigurationService - allows plugins to manage their configuration
PluginArchetypeService - limited version of the ArchetypeService, to allow plugins to access the database

Packaging

The release distribution will be updated to contain a pre-packaged version of Apache Felix, containing a number of OSGi bundles required for plugins to function.