RSH> Ok, I understand now. Sorry for my thick headedness. Maybe Peter has a
RSH> reason why they are excluded, but I can't think of any.
No, likely my unfamiliarity with Maven :-(
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
RSH> Tom Huybrechts wrote:
>> On 1/12/07, Richard S. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Tom Huybrechts wrote:
>>> > I'm trying to use the maven-bundle-plugin to create a bundle for
>>> > maven-embedder.
>>> > I'm having two issues:
>>> > - runtime-scoped dependencies are ignored. I would like to explicitly
>>> > include some in the jar (even though they are not directly referenced)
>>>
>>> I am not sure what you mean by this. The plugin does not do anything
>>> automatically with maven dependencies. If you want stuff included inside
>>> of your bundle JAR file, then the packages must be listed in
>>> <Private-Package> or <Export-Package>.
>>>
>>> The plugin essentially ignores maven dependencies, the dependencies just
>>> represent what is available on the class path. You construct the
>>> contents of your bundle by listing packages from the class path to
>>> include inside of it.
>>>
>>
>> The maven dependencies are the source from which packages get
>> included. But the dependencies are filtered, so only compile, system
>> and provided scope dependencies remain. I don't see why runtime
>> dependencies are filtered out.
RSH> Ok, I understand now. Sorry for my thick headedness. Maybe Peter has a
RSH> reason why they are excluded, but I can't think of any.
>>> In the future there may be some other ways of dealing with maven
>>> dependencies, but Peter Kriens and I haven't had the time to think about
>>> it yet.
>>>
>>> > - I would like to create the bundle next to the original jar. If the
>>> > plugin understood classifiers, I could do this. In this case, the
>>> > bundle packaging is not needed.
>>>
>>> I don't really understand this either...I must be dense today.
>>>
>> I'm probably not explaining this very well...
>>
>> The bundle plugin now always builds the main artifact of the project.
>> In Maven, it is also possible to attach additional artifacts to the
>> build. These are distinguised by having classifier.
>> e.g. the main artifact is my-project-1.0.0.jar and the bundle could be
>> an attachted artifact my-project-1.0.0-bundle.jar. Both can be
>> deployed to the repository simultaneously.
>>
>> The advantage to this is that you can add this to an existing project
>> (possibly in an optional profile) without having to change the
>> packaging type.
RSH> Ok, makes sense now. I don't know much about maven, so that is probably
RSH> why I didn't understand. Sounds interesting. I was under the impression
RSH> that maven only ever created one artifact (except perhaps test artifacts).
RSH> Well, attach the patch to the JIRA issue and I will look into it.
->> richard
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>> > I'm attaching a patch that implements both issues. I wanted to put it
>>> > in JIRA, but could not find a component for this plugin ?
>>>
>>> Just use the component for the maven OSGi plugin for now, since the goal
>>> is to eventually have one plugin.
>>>
>>> -> richard
>>>
>>>
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