Hi everybody, I asked the same question some time ago and was redirected to the bindex tool, which you can download from the OSGi site. This allows you to statically generate a remository.xml file that reflects the contents of a repository. It works on maven repositories or caches. In my team, we are still working with Oscar and the former obr and we have developped our own tools.
Of course a way of improving the process could be what Richard suggests, which is, if I understand well: integrating the construction of the repository in the maven building process. However I'm still not completely happy with that. I wonder if it would be possible to have a "maven-br" bundle which relies on a maven repository: that is, rather than statically generating the repository.xml file, let the job be done dynamically by the "maven-br" bundle. This bundle could also exploit the maven cache mechanism. I am aware that there are some technical problems , but I do not measure exactly the difficulty. The main problem I see is the consistency between the standard bundle installation/updating process and the installation through a tool like obr (what do we put in the "bundle-update" information ?). Anyway, a nice feature that could be added to the obr bundle could be "update through obr", which would result in : - Uninstall a bundle - Install the bundle with the same reference using the obr; - restore the bundle's state So that we could have http://myrepository/mybundle-1.0-20070210.121414.jar replaced automatically with http://myrepository/mybundle-1.0-20070212.123456.jar Regards, Anne -----Message d'origine----- De : Tim Moloney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 12 février 2007 03:45 À : felix-dev@incubator.apache.org Objet : Re: Is there a Maven plugin to install a bundle to OBR? I found that I can use my maven repository as my OBR by adding repository.xml. I copied http://oscar-osgi.sf.net/obr2/repository.xml to ~/.m2/repository, then manually edited it to match the bundles that I've installed in my maven repository. Clearly, this is manually intensive and highly error-prone. A Maven plugin that parsed a bundle's MANIFEST.MF to load the <resource> elements in repository.xml would be ideal. I still don't know exactly how and where to get all of the specific pieces of data since the OBR documentation appears a bit out of date. Perhaps Richard or Peter can answer this. Tim Carlos Sanchez wrote: > I heard before that people wanted to create a OBR layer on top of the > maven repo, I may take a look at it if someone can write what it'd > take. > > On 2/11/07, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 12 February 2007 08:54, Tim Moloney wrote: >> > I've started experimenting with OBR and I can get things working by >> > doing several steps manually. What do people use to automate the >> > installation of a bundle to an OBR? >> >> Personally, I used to have cron job on the server, so a any upload by >> Maven arriving would be examined and meta extracted and build up the >> OBR xml. Quite messy, and decided to kill it off. >> >> >> Cheers >> Niclas >> > >
