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<h2 id="running-felix">Running Felix</h2> <p>To run Apache Felix OSGi, you need to download the felix-framework-4.x.x.tar.gz or felix-framework-4.x.x.zip <a href="/facts/Compress/RLSgGNUX">compressed file</a> from the site. Once you have extracted the Felix framework distribution, from the command line in the extracted directory type the following: </p><p>java -jar bin/felix.jar </p><p>After bundles are installed and running, typing a command like help from the console will display all available commands, which are: </p> <ul><li>bundlelevel <level> <id> ... | <id> - set or get bundle start level.</li> <li>cd [<base-URL>] - change or display base URL.</li> <li>find <bundle-name> - display bundles matching substring.</li> <li>headers [<id> ...] - display bundle header properties.</li> <li>help - display impl commands.</li> <li>inspect - inspect dependency information (e.g., packages, service, etc.).</li> <li>install <URL> [<URL> ...] - install bundle(s).</li> <li>log [<max>] [error|warn|info|debug] - list recent log entries.</li> <li>obr help - OSGi bundle repository.</li> <li>ps [-l | -s | -u] - list installed bundles.</li> <li>refresh [<id> ...] - refresh packages.</li> <li>resolve [<id> ...] - attempt to resolve the specified bundles.</li> <li>shutdown - shutdown framework.</li> <li>start <id> [<id> <URL> ...] - start bundle(s).</li> <li>startlevel [<level>] - get or set framework start level.</li> <li>stop <id> [<id> ...] - stop bundle(s).</li> <li>sysprop [-r] [<key>] [<value>] - Display, set, modify and remove system properties.</li> <li>uninstall <id> [<id> ...] - uninstall bundle(s).</li> <li>update <id> [<URL>] - update bundle.</li> <li>version - display version of framework.</li></ul> <h2 id="version-history">Version history</h2> <p>Felix Framework Distribution </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Version</th><th>OSGi spec support</th><th>Release date</th></tr><tr><td>7.0.0</td><td>R7</td><td>December 25, 2020</td></tr><tr><td>6.0.3</td><td>R6</td><td>May 2, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>6.0.2</td><td>R6</td><td>January 31, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>6.0.1</td><td>R6</td><td>August 20, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>5.2.0</td><td>R6</td><td>September 25, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>5.0.1</td><td>R6</td><td>June 21, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>5.0.0</td><td>R4</td><td>April 24, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>4.6.1</td><td>R4</td><td>March 8, 2015</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="subprojects">Subprojects</h2> <p>List of subprojects of which the Apache Felix framework consists. </p> <table><tbody><tr><th>Component</th><th>Latest version</th><th>Released</th></tr><tr><td>AutoConf Resource Processor</td><td>0.1.8</td><td>January 16, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>Bundle Repository</td><td>2.0.10</td><td>April 21, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Configuration Admin</td><td>1.9.16</td><td>June 15, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Connect</td><td>0.2.0</td><td>May 25, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Configurator</td><td>1.0.10</td><td>June 15, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Converter</td><td>1.0.10</td><td>August 26, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Coordinator</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>November 9, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Dependency Manager 4</td><td>r15</td><td>December 23, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Deployment Admin</td><td>0.9.10</td><td>January 16, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>Event Admin</td><td>1.5.0</td><td>May 4, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>File Install</td><td>3.6.4</td><td>October 23, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Framework Security</td><td>2.6.1</td><td>August 16, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Framework</td><td>6.0.3</td><td>May 2, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo</td><td>5</td><td>January 14, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo BOM</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>January 14, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo Command</td><td>1.1.0</td><td>January 10, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo JLine</td><td>1.1.4</td><td>January 28, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo Runtime</td><td>1.1.0</td><td>January 10, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Gogo Shell</td><td>1.1.0</td><td>January 10, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Health Check Annotations</td><td>2.0.0</td><td>February 25, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Health Check API</td><td>2.0.2</td><td>May 20, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Health Check Core</td><td>2.0.6</td><td>May 20, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Health Check General Checks</td><td>2.0.4</td><td>May 13, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Health Check Webconsole Plugin</td><td>2.0.0</td><td>February 25, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service API</td><td>3.0.0</td><td>August 5, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Base</td><td>4.0.8</td><td>September 7, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Bridge</td><td>4.0.10</td><td>September 7, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Bundle</td><td>3.0.0</td><td>January 29, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Cometd</td><td>2.3.2</td><td>November 5, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Jetty</td><td>4.0.14</td><td>September 12, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Proxy</td><td>3.0.6</td><td>May 15, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Reactor</td><td>5</td><td>November 5, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service SSL filter</td><td>1.2.6</td><td>October 19, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Service Whiteboard</td><td>4.0.0</td><td>April 26, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>HTTP Servlet 2.6 + 3.0 API</td><td>1.1.2</td><td>August 5, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Inventory Printer</td><td>1.0.6</td><td>December 5, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO (Core)</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Annotations</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO API</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Architecture Command for Gogo</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Architecture Command for the Felix Shell</td><td>1.6.0</td><td>April 16, 2010</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO BND Plugin</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Composite</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Event Admin handler</td><td>1.8.0</td><td>May 11, 2011</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Extender pattern handler</td><td>1.4.0</td><td>July 21, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO JMX handler</td><td>1.4.0</td><td>July 21, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>IPOJO Karaf Features</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Manipulator Project (containing all iPOJO manipulator modules)</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Manipulator</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Manipulator BOM</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Maven Plugin</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Metadata</td><td>1.6.0</td><td>December 6, 2011</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Runtime Project (containing all iPOJO runtime modules)</td><td>1.12.1</td><td>December 16, 2014</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Temporal Dependency handler</td><td>1.6.0</td><td>May 16, 2010</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO URL Handler</td><td>1.6.0</td><td>April 16, 2010</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO WebConsole Plugin</td><td>1.7.0</td><td>May 15, 2013</td></tr><tr><td>iPOJO Whiteboard pattern handler</td><td>1.6.0</td><td>July 3, 2011</td></tr><tr><td>Jaas Support Boot Classpath Jar</td><td>1.0.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Jaas Support Bundle</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>February 13, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>junit4osgi - maven plugin</td><td>1.0.0</td><td>May 1, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>junit4osgi - shell command</td><td>1.0.0</td><td>May 1, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>junit4osgi - swing gui</td><td>1.0.0</td><td>May 1, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>junit4osgi</td><td>1.0.0</td><td>April 30, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>Lightweight HTTP Service Complete</td><td>0.1.6</td><td>May 5, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Lightweight HTTP Service Core</td><td>0.1.6</td><td>May 5, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Lightweight HTTP Service Reactor</td><td>0.1.6</td><td>May 5, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Logback</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>January 22, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Main</td><td>6.0.3</td><td>May 2, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Metatype</td><td>1.2.2</td><td>September 26, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>OBR Maven plugin</td><td>1.2.0</td><td>February 14, 2008</td></tr><tr><td>OSGi Check Maven Plugin</td><td>0.1.0</td><td>September 23, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>OSGi OBR service API</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>Apilr 25, 2008</td></tr><tr><td>Preferences</td><td>1.1.0</td><td>October 12, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>Remote Shell</td><td>1.2.0</td><td>November 25, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>Resolver</td><td>2.0.0</td><td>July 3, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>SCR (Declarative Services)</td><td>2.1.16</td><td>February 26, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>SCR Annotations</td><td>1.12.0</td><td>October 13, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>SCR bnd Plugin</td><td>1.9.4</td><td>May 9, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>SCR Compat (Declarative Services)</td><td>1.0.4</td><td>July 6, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>SCR DS Annotations</td><td>1.2.10</td><td>September 8, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>SCR Ext Anno</td><td>1.0.0</td><td>July 10, 2016</td></tr><tr><td>SCR Generator</td><td>1.18.2</td><td>May 9, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Shell Text UI</td><td>1.4.1</td><td>October 11, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>Shell</td><td>1.4.3</td><td>March 6, 2012</td></tr><tr><td>System Ready</td><td>0.4.2</td><td>April 5, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>UPnP Base Driver (JDK 1.3)</td><td>0.8.0</td><td>June 12, 2008</td></tr><tr><td>UPnP Base Driver (JDK 1.4+)</td><td>0.8.0</td><td>June 12, 2008</td></tr><tr><td>UPnP Extra</td><td>0.4.0</td><td>May 17, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>UPnP Tester</td><td>0.4.0</td><td>May 17, 2009</td></tr><tr><td>User Admin</td><td>1.0.4</td><td>June 20, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>User Admin File-based store</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>November 30, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>User Admin MongoDB-based store</td><td>1.0.1</td><td>November 30, 2012</td></tr><tr><td>Utils</td><td>1.11.2</td><td>December 11, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console</td><td>4.3.14</td><td>August 16, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console DS Plugin</td><td>2.1.0</td><td>September 23, 2018</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Event Plugin</td><td>1.1.8</td><td>September 26, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Memory Usage Plugin</td><td>1.0.10</td><td>April 2, 2019</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console OBR Plugin</td><td>1.0.4</td><td>May 5, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Package Admin Plugin</td><td>1.0.4</td><td>February 17, 2017</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Script Console Plugin</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>November 30, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Service Diagnostics Plugin</td><td>0.1.3</td><td>September 16, 2013</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console Subsystems Plugin</td><td>0.1.0</td><td>November 30, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console UPNP Plugin</td><td>1.0.6</td><td>March 10, 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Web Console User Admin Plugin</td><td>1.0.2</td><td>March 10, 2015</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="projects-using-felix">Projects using Felix</h2> <p>The projects listed below highlight the adoption of Apache Felix: </p> <ul><li>ServiceMix 4<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> - An open source ESB with an OSGi core. It also includes JBI support.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Apache_Sling/mxyPKJmn">Apache Sling</a> - OSGi-based applications layer for <a href="/facts/Content_repository_API_for_Java/oPQaJuwr">JCR</a> content repositories.</li> <li><a href="/facts/EasyBeans/k99I5t4n">EasyBeans</a> - open source EJB 3 container.</li> <li><a href="/facts/GlassFish/Y45eWxx3">GlassFish</a> (v3) - application server for Java EE.</li> <li>JOnAS 5 - open source Java EE 5 application server.</li> <li>JORAM and JoramMQ - open source messaging: JMS, AMQP and MQTT broker.</li> <li>Project Fuji in Open ESB v3 - Light weight and modular ESB core runtime.</li> <li>Jitsi (formerly known as SIP Communicator) - open source Java VoIP and multi-protocol instant messenger.</li> <li>modulefusion - open source collection for Java enterprise applications.</li> <li><a href="/facts/NetBeans/9kqvIVFG">NetBeans</a> - The free MultiLanguage IDE.</li> <li><a href="/facts/SOA_Software/rnIrzHKC">SOA Software</a> - API Gateway application from Akana (formerly SOA Software).</li> <li><a href="/facts/Spring_Roo/dzRVIvw2">Spring Roo</a> - RAD tool for Java-based enterprise applications</li> <li><a href="/facts/Opencast_Matterhorn/YlW5r71y">Opencast Matterhorn</a> - Open Source software to produce, manage and distribute academic audio and video content, especially lecture recordings.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Jira_(software)/7ly5Ty3T">JIRA</a> - JIRA supports plug-ins as OSGi bundles.</li> <li>Adobe Experience Manager - Enterprise <a href="/facts/Content_management_system/CCk4vIxV">content management system</a> and <a href="/facts/Digital_asset_management/cfnfD2Ns">digital asset management</a> developed by <a href="/facts/Adobe_Inc/Bj1d5XvJ">Adobe Inc</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Computer programming portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/OSGi/qh2yzbsu">OSGi Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Apache_Aries/KFBjsvU9">Apache Aries</a>, a Blueprint Container implementations and extensions of application-focused specifications defined by OSGi Enterprise Expert Group</li> <li><a href="/facts/Equinox_OSGi/pxjTUCAw">Equinox</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Concierge_OSGi/p1LlBKKx">Concierge OSGi</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.webcitation.org/6HeO8qd6m?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffelix.apache.org%2F">Official website</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"OSGi Certified Products". OSGi Alliance Site. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 2018-04-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080925211558/http://www.osgi.org/Markets/Certified" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080925211558/http://www.osgi.org/Markets/Certified</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Project Oscar hosted at ObjectWeb". Archived from the original on 2005-06-13. Retrieved 2007-03-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050613081525/http://oscar.objectweb.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20050613081525/http://oscar.objectweb.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Home page for the Apache ServiceMix 4 Archived September 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine <a href="https://servicemix.apache.org/SMX4/index.html" target="_blank">https://servicemix.apache.org/SMX4/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>