This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to get started on developing your first application that runs on the Rifidi Edge Server. The application we will develop will use Esper to collect tag reads from a reader and put them on a JMS queue to be consumed by a client application. Many of the steps are applicable to many kinds of plugins for the edge server, including creating a sensor plugin.

Prerequisites

For this tutorial, we will use Eclipse to develop the application. While it would be possible to develop the application in any IDE that you are familiar with, Eclipse provides great tooling around OSGi application development and deployment, and thus makes this process much easier. If this is your first time developing with eclipse, there will be a learning curve. However, the payoff is worth it.

To get started see Setting up a Development Environment.

Creating the new project

Stating Dependencies in the Manifest

Creating the Application

package com.mycompany.rfid.app;

import org.rifidi.edge.core.services.esper.EsperManagementService;

/**
 * @author Kyle Neumeier - kyle@pramari.com
 *
 */
public class MyApplication {
	
	/**Esper service*/
	private volatile EsperManagementService esperService;

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public MyApplication() {
		
	}

	/**
	 * Called by spring
	 * @param esperService
	 */
	public void setEsperService(EsperManagementService esperService) {
		this.esperService = esperService;
	}
}

Creating the Spring Context XML

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
	xmlns:amq="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd">

	<!-- Create the  Application bean and inject dependencies-->
	<bean id="rfidapp" class="com.mycompany.rfid.app.MyApplication">
		<property name="esperService" ref="esper" />
	</bean>

	<!-- Get a reference to the Esper Management Service from the OSGi Service Registry -->
	<osgi:reference id="esperManagementService"
		interface="org.rifidi.edge.core.services.esper.EsperManagementService" />
</beans>

Running the Application

Modifying and redeploying the Application