On 27-Jan-09, at 6:41 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:
repositories. They might become OBRs at some point when OSGi becomes
more "mainstream".
One thing I have been toying with for a while is to auto-magically
extend maven-jar-plugin to add the OSGi headers.
I really don't think this is a great idea. I think for a bundle to be
useful someone needs to provide proper imports and exports.
I haven't given a lot of thought into what I need to do, but if I
recall correctly, getting a simple OSGified jar isn't much work and if
Maven did this out of the box then the maven repository would become
OSGified over time as projects release their artifacts.
We've toyed around with this idea, but if you want something useful I
think it's really hard to infer something useful. Making a manifest
that is workable with OSGi is not that hard and the author of a
package is probably the person to do it. I think what we can do is
give a brief guideline as to what's commonly expected and help people
create correct and useful bundles. Maven central is the biggest bundle
repository in waiting :-)
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Thanks,
Jason
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