The bnd program is also an ant task. It should be quite straightforward to take the pom and transfer this to a bnd file, the <instruction> elements of the maven plugin are the same as the bnd files headers. Your ant script then only has to compile the sources and run the bnd task.
http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd Kind regards, Peter Kriens TM> Thanks for the reply. TM> I too primarily use Maven since I think that Maven is awesome. However, TM> it is not nearly as pervasive as Ant and it is a bit "needy". TM> It needs access to the Internet, not only to get project dependencies, TM> but to also get all of Maven plugins, which can be quite a lot. For TM> those without access to the Internet, this is a problem. Granted, you TM> can initially build on an Internet-connect machine, then move the local TM> repository to the disconnected machine. However, the local repository TM> includes a lot of dependencies for someone who just needs to build the TM> software but not do development. TM> My hope was to use Maven to do development of a project on an TM> Internet-connected machine. Then, when the project is released, I would TM> also release the project's sources, an ant build.xml file, and all the TM> project's dependencies. This would be the smallest complete set of TM> requirements for someone to build the project from source. This set of TM> requirements would be much less than those required to build the project TM> using Maven. TM> Perhaps this is just too much to ask. Thanks again for the reply. TM> Tim Moloney TM> Felix Meschberger wrote: >> Hi Tim, >> >> I have none, sorry, as I stopped using ant the moment I went maven :-) >> >> Regards >> Felix >> >> On 11/8/06, Tim Moloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> No suggestions or comments? >>> >>> >>> On Monday, 30 October 2006, Tim Moloney wrote: >>> > Is it possible for maven-ant-plugin to generate a build.xml file that >>> > will create a Felix bundle? >>> > >>> > Without changing my pom.xml, I ran "mvn ant:ant: to generate a >>> > build.xml file. Running ant on that build.xml does create a jar file >>> > that installs and resolves in Felix but it certainly doesn't execute. >>> > >>> > Documentation on maven-ant-plugin is a bit slim. It just describes >>> > the one goal (ant:ant) with its two parameters (localRepository and >>> > project||). >>> > >>> > Perhaps I'm expecting too much from maven-ant-plugin? >>> > >>> > Tim Moloney >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >> -- Peter Kriens Tel +33467542167 9C, Avenue St. Drézéry AOL,Yahoo: pkriens 34160 Beaulieu, France ICQ 255570717 Skype pkriens Fax +1 8153772599
