This reminds me. If there is one "repository" (in the broader sense of the word) that really embraces the intersection of OSGi and Ivy--not to mention Maven--it is the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository: http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/
Every JAR in the SpringSource EBR is an OSGi-ified bundle. I don't know if it literally functions as an OBR (that's brushing up against the limits of my OSGi knowledge), but I can tell you that the Ivy module descriptors there were clearly designed by someone who has both strong knowledge of the Spring stack and a sophisticated understanding of how Ivy works. I'm sure the manifests you'll find inside are just as exemplary. Now, if SpringSource has figured out a sane way to make the creation of bundles coexist with build-time dependency management via Ivy, that's a good sign. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Archie Cobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious about this too but haven't acquired any wisdom on the answer > yet. > > There is this concept of OBR - OSGi bundle repository. For example, > Oscar<http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/>and the OSGi > site has one <http://www.osgi.org/Repository/HomePage>. I'm not sure yet > if > this OBR concept is just for local stuff (it says "federated") or if there > is going to be some kind of master/top authority from which to delegate, > i.e., like how DNS works (in fact, no reason the DNS system could be used > as > a way to locate repositories, e.g., "_osgibundlerepository.domain.com"). > > -Archie > > -- > Archie L. Cobbs >
