If you reference the v1.0.0 schema when creating a shell extension, everything is fine, for example:
<command-bundle xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/shell/v1.0.0"> but if you change it to: <command-bundle xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/shell/v1.1.0"> which is valid, then Karaf (at least in the integration tests for sure), you'll get a validation error error: 2013-06-15 21:11:15,935 | ERROR | pool-12-thread-1 | BlueprintContainerImpl | 28 - org.apache.aries.blueprint.core - 1.1.1.SNAPSHOT | Unable to start blueprint container for bundle org.apache.karaf.cellar.shell org.osgi.service.blueprint.container.ComponentDefinitionException: Unable to validate xml at org.apache.aries.blueprint.parser.Parser.validate(Parser.java:288) at org.apache.aries.blueprint.container.BlueprintContainerImpl.doRun(BlueprintContainerImpl.java:313)[28:org.apache.aries.blueprint.core:1.1.1.SNAPSHOT] ....... Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute 'name' is not allowed to appear in element 'command'. at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)[:1.7.0_17] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, if you keep the namespace at v1.1.0 and remove the name attribute from each of the commands, you end up with a different more cryptic error that you won't get with v1.0.0, for example: 2013-06-15 22:33:54,037 | ERROR | pool-12-thread-1 | BlueprintContainerImpl | 28 - org.apache.aries.blueprint.core - 1.1.1.SNAPSHOT | Unable to start blueprint container for bundle org.apache.karaf.cellar.shell org.osgi.service.blueprint.container.ComponentDefinitionException: org.osgi.service.blueprint.container.ComponentDefinitionException: Unable to find a matching factory method getScope on class org.apache.karaf.shell.console.commands.NamespaceHandler for arguments [org.apache.karaf.cellar.shell.producer.ProducerStopCommand] when instanciating bean #recipe-224 Is this a bug? If so, I'll file a Jira, it's just weird. Ryan -- View this message in context: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Schema-for-custom-shell-commands-tp4029047.html Sent from the Karaf - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.