[[OsgiActivator]]
= OSGi Camel Routes Activator (deprecated)
:page-source: components/camel-osgi-activator/src/main/docs/osgi-activator.adoc

*Since Camel 3.1*

A small OSGi activator for starting an OSGi Apache Camel Project.

The bundle starts a shared CamelContext and registers any RouteBuilder instances
(discovered via the OSGi Service Registry), from any other bundles that gets installed.
And when the bundles gets uninstalled then the routes are stopped and removed from the shared CamelContext.

== Important

This OSGi activator is a based prototype for quickly starting up an OSGi container with a single shared
CamelContext and then being able to use OSGi dynamism to deploy and undeploy bundlers with Camel routes.

Beware that this OSGi activator is a basic implementation and has limited support for dealing with errors
when new routes are added which may clash with existing routes (route ids).

Configuration of the CamelContext is also very limited.

Therefore only use this for prototyping and experiments. This is NOT recommended for production usage.

== Install bundle

Register an Apache Camel RouteBuilder as an OSGi service.

Using OSGi annotations:

[source,java]
----
@Component(service = RouteBuilder.class)
public class MyRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
    @Override
    public void configure() throws Exception {
        from("timer:test?fixedRate=true&period=1000")
            .log("Hello");
    }
}
----

Or Manually:

[source,java]
----
public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
  context.registerService(RouteBuilder.class, new MyRouteBuilder(), null);
}
----

And it's automatically added or removed to the context from any bundle!

[source,text]
----
Route: route1 started and consuming from: timer://test?fixedRate=true&period=1000
----

For routes that need to be started before the CamelContext the "camel.osgi.activator.pre-startup" service property may be added.  

[source,java]
----
@Component(service = RouteBuilder.class, property = {CamelRoutesActivatorConstants.PRE_START_UP_PROP_NAME + "=true"})
public class MyStartupRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
    @Override
    public void configure() throws Exception {
        getContext().setStreamCaching(true);

        restConfiguration().component("netty-http").port(8080);
    }
}
----

If this RouteBuilder is added after other non pre startup RouteBuilders then CamelContext will automatically restart.  This allows pre start up RouteBuilder to run their configure methods before other RouteBuilders.