Hi all, I am having some conceptual problems with the maven-bundle-plugin and the way dependencies are handled.
I have successfully managed to use the maven-bundle-plugin to produce an OSGI bundle from an Eclipse RCP application that we use. The nett result is a single bundle that's 55MB in size, containing 3/4 of Eclipse unpacked inside the bundle. What I would like to achieve is to not include 3/4 of Eclipse into the plugin bundle, but rather have Eclipse provide the bundles needed for me, and I have been struggling to find documentation on how this is done. There are two similar concepts here: bundles that depend on maven provided artifacts, and bundles that depend on other bundles. The docs seem to cover the first concept only. Is there a HOWTO anywhere that describes how I might build a plugin using maven-bundle-plugin, allowing maven to find all the dependencies needed to compile, but to depend on external bundles, not internally unpacked jars? Regards, Graham --
