>> Since maven is so widely adopted, it would be foolish to ignore. That is not >> what I am suggesting. However, I think it would not be wise to force Karaf >> users into the maven world, either. > You are right. For OSGi we need a repository with support for OSGi metadata. > Only then can we use the resolver in an efficient way. > I think an OBR like Cave is the wrong approach though. It want to index the > whole repository which does not work on the scale of maven repos.... > especially not for maven central.
Do you know JMP? https://jpm4j.org <https://jpm4j.org/> Perhaps this solves the problem you mention, or perhaps could provide a little inspiration? Cheers, =David