a modular and extensible osgi shell

A MODULAR AND EXTENSIBLE OSGI SHELLLazar KirchevSAP AG

Reston, VA, USA 29th March

Outline• Motivation• New features• The Virgo story• Programming for the shell• Next steps

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Motivation

•Why a new shell?• Usability features• Telnet access• Ssh support

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Why a New Shell Demo

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Features of the new shell• Based on Apache Gogo• Improved telnet connectivity• Ssh

• JAAS authentication support• Key-based authentication

• Command line editing and tab completion

• Backward incompatibilities

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New Features Demo

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The Shells in Virgo

• Two regions• Two independent shells• Configuration through ConfigAdmin

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Virgo Shells Demo

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Programming for the new shell• Based on the standard OSGi service model

• No need to implement predefined interfaces • Commands are OSGi services with the two properties:• osgi.command.scope• osgi.command.function

• Converters and Formatters• Compatibility with legacy commands

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Coding Demo

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Resources• Eclipse documentation

• Platform Plug-in Developer Guide -> Programmer's Guide -> Runtime overview -> Console Shell

• Virgo documentation• http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/documentation/• http://git.eclipse.org/c/virgo/org.eclipse.virgo.documentation.git/

plain/white-paper/virgo-white-paper.pdf

• l.kirchev@sap.com

• Equinox dev mailing list: equinox-dev@eclipse.org

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Q & A

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Thank you!

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