Packaging and Exposing
the ServiceLast Updated December 16, 2024
To make your Java service available for
use with the
vSphere Web Client
and
the vSphere Client
, you must export the service and add it to the Spring
configuration on the application server. Spring uses the OSGi model to share Java libraries. Exporting the
Service
You must locate the
/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
file in your service JAR bundle and ensure that the Java service package is
exported. To export the package, the following line must appear in the
MANIFEST.MF
file:
In the example line,
com.vmware.myService
is
the name of the service package you created.
Adding the Service to
the Spring Configuration
You add your service to the Spring configuration on the
application server by creating a
<bean>
element in the Spring
configuration file. In the JAR bundle, locate the /src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context.xml
file. The
file contains a <beans>
XML element containing services in
the configuration. Add your service as a new <bean>
as shown
in the following example. The name attribute is the name
of your service implementation, and the class attribute contains the class you
created that implements the service interface.
You must also expose the
service interface as an OSGi bundle in the Spring framework. In the JAR bundle,
locate the
/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/bundle-context-osgi.xml
file. This file also contains a
<beans>
XML element. Add your service by using
the following line.
The
id
attribute is the name of your service, the
ref
element specifies the service implementation you added to the
bundle-context.xml
file, and the
interface
element
contains the class that defines the service interface.