How to start a bundle on boot in apache karaf

Question

I want to start Camel and ActiveMQ during boot when I start karaf, What i've found is the etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg which lists features that should be started during boot.

featuresBoot=config,ssh,management,camel,activemq,camel-jms,activemq-spring,activemq-camel

This works fine for all but 'activemq-camel' (fair enough, since it's not a feature). To get the apache-camel bundle installed i've to run run the command:

karaf@...>osgi:install -s mvn:org.apache.activemq/activemq-camel/5.5.0

It works, but I'd rather just get it running at boot time. Can I somehow get the activemq-camel bundle to be installed at boot time without creating a custom feature for it?

Answer 1

Apache ServiceMix has this feature already defined. To use it add mvn:org.apache.servicemix/apache-servicemix/4.4.1/xml/features to the featuresRepositories property in etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg and then camel-activemq to the featuresBoot property.

Cheers, Jon