The new maven build in bndtools is now a plain maven build. Of course the bndtools examples favour the bnd-maven-plugin instead of the maven-bundle-plugin but that is more like left and right twix :-)
The only real difference is how the bundles are then assembled into a runable application. There bndtools uses a bndrun file which points to a repository (based on maven now) and requirements. The output is a runnable jar. For karaf you create a feature with your bundles and dependencies typically as feature dependencies. Then in a second step you can also have a karaf custom distro to create a complete server (application). So it is now perfectly possible to produce a bndtools based assembly and a karaf feature and optionally a custom distro in the same build. The only sad thing is that the deployment descriptions are not yet compatible. As both karaf and bndtools use a bundle repository under the hood I think this can be improved. Christian Am Do., 14. Feb. 2019 um 13:46 Uhr schrieb Jean-Baptiste Onofré < j...@nanthrax.net>: > Hi Ray, > > does it mean that bundle can be created in bndtools, then upload in a > Maven repository, and installed in Karaf ? > Maybe the only missing piece is that bndtools generate a features XML to > have a complete story. > > Regards > JB > > On 14/02/2019 13:44, Raymond Auge wrote: > > Perhaps it would be better, rather than switching to the BND Workspace > > model to simply use the BND/Bndtools Maven/m2e support. It's very good > > now and has parity in large part with the BND Workspace. The upcoming > > release especially should break lots of barriers. > > > > Just a suggestion. > > > > - Ray > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 07:37 Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net > > <mailto:j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We didn't move forward a lot. I remember there was some discussion to > > have a "Karaf exporter" in bndtools and I proposed my help on this. > > I didn't move forward yet. > > > > Do you already know what you have in mind (if you could describe the > use > > case, that would be great) ? > > > > Regards > > JB > > > > On 14/02/2019 13:20, kamilantlgc wrote: > > > Dear Karaf User group, > > > > > > I have stumbled upon the exact problem - how to join Karaf and > > Bndtools > > > together "the right way" (this conversation is the first result in > > Google by > > > the way: https://www.google.com/search?q=karaf+bnd). > > > > > > I've read the topic and was happy to see that Guillaume asked to > > fill Jira > > > issue. > > > Then I've read with interest that JB is just "building the new > > SNAPSHOT to > > > test if the couple of issues". > > > And then I navigated to the issue created by dleangen > > > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-4160) just to see > > that it's > > > status is "Won't fix"... > > > > > > Anyway - does anybody on this group already figured it out how to > > join Karaf > > > and Bnd to play nicely together? > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Kamil > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Sent from: > http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Karaf-User-f930749.html > > > > > > > -- > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > jbono...@apache.org <mailto:jbono...@apache.org> > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com > -- -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Computer Scientist http://www.adobe.com
