The Felix 2.x Bundle Repository is compliant with the OSGi Repository spec. What is it that makes it not useful?
On 29 April 2015 at 16:51, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > Currently, cave is using the old 1.6.4 bundle repository, so it does not > support the repository spec at all. > Unfortunately, even the 2.x branch of bundle repository is not really > useful for what I listed above. > > > 2015-04-29 17:31 GMT+02:00 David Bosschaert <david.bosscha...@gmail.com>: > >> Sounds interesting! Does Cave implement the actual OSGi Repository spec? >> >> Cheers, >> >> David >> >> On 29 April 2015 at 16:18, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: >> > I've raised a JIRA issue for the integration of Cave and Karaf 4 (see >> > KARAF-3712). >> > >> > I have the following things in mind to integrate Cave into Karaf 4. >> > >> > When I mean integrating, I mean two things : >> > >> > - ability to to use osgi repository from cave inside the karaf feature >> > resolution process (karaf 4 already support external osgi >> repositories so >> > we're simply missing a compliant repository server) >> > - ability to use cave as a maven repository and not only an osgi >> > repository (i.e. serve other kind of artifacts with a real maven >> layout) >> > >> > >> > It would require the following things : >> > >> > - upgrade to CXF 3.1 >> > - us the spec'ed xml instead of the custom bundle repository xml >> format >> > (both internally and for external access) >> > - provide support for accessing repositories as json based repository >> as >> > read by karaf 4 (see JsonRepository class) >> > - support for gzip encoding of the repository in the servlet >> > (repositories do compress very well) >> > - move the maven proxy support from karaf 4 to cave >> > >> > I think a good addition would be to provide each repository managed by >> cave >> > as a Repository object instead of relying on the bundle repository >> > Repository object which is an aggregation. >> > >> > I would also get rid of OBR since this is deprecated. >> > >> > We may also want to get rid of the felix bundle repository completely and >> > rely on the felix repository and karat-features-core bundle internal >> > classes. >> > >> > Another good improvement for 4.0 would be to make sure the repositories >> can >> > be used with cellar using DOSGi. Using a simple servlet instead of a >> full >> > war for the cave http servlet would trim down the dependencies a bit too >> > with no real loss imho. >> > >> > I'm wiling to experiment a bit with these ideas ... >> > >> > Thoughts ? >>
