On 2 February 2010 12:41, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 04:00, Ching, Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> You could probably say this is off-topic for this list and more of a BND >> issue, but I know that there is a lot of BND knowledge here and I want to >> mimic what the maven bundle plugin does with pure BND as much as I can. I >> need the functionality of maven bundle plugin's "Embed-Dependency" >> configuration, I want my jars to be embedded (inline=false), not inlined. >> From reading the code, it appears that embed-dependency is turned into >> include-resource and bundle-classpath BND directives. But when I do this: >> >> -classpath=com.ibm.mq.jar,connector.jar >> Include-Resource=com.ibm.mq.jar,connector.jar >> Bundle-Classpath=.,com.ibm.mq.jar,connector.jar >> Private-Package=!* >> >> BND doesn't seem to pull the Export-Package from the packages in the >> embedded jars. > > > wrt. automatically setting the Export-Package list from the packages in > embedded jar > neither the bundleplugin or Bnd Tool do this - the bundleplugin sets > Export-Package to > be the list of packages in your source directories, unless you set it > explicitly > > what you're doing above is basically what the bundleplugin Embed-Dependency > instruction > does (the code I linked to in my earlier post does nothing to the > Export-Package settings) > > perhaps you want to use the -exportcontents instruction? this has a similar > effect on the > exported packages as Export-Package, but with one important difference: it > doesn't pull > classes into the bundle or affect the contents, it just alters the exported > packages > > for example: > > Export-Package: * > > inlines all classes/resources on your classpath > > whereas: > > -exportcontents: * > > export all packages contained in the bundle without affecting the contents > > now if the jars you're embedding are bundles and you want their > Export-Package settings > combined in the mega-bundle then neither the Bnd Tool or the bundleplugin > support this, > but it might be possible to add it as a feature (to either Bnd or the > bundleplugin) > > >> Is this something that can be accomplished by BND alone? Or is this >> where the maven bundle plugin did some "value add" if you will? And if the >> latter, what was done? I appreciate any help! >> >> P.S. In case it's not clear, I am trying to "wrap" some jars into a bundle >> when our package is installed on the target machine. We aren't allowed to >> redistribute the jar files in this case, so we want to turn them into a >> bundle before use. >> > one last thing: for dynamic wrapping of jars take a look at http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxurl/Wrap+Protocol > Cheers, >> Craig >> > > -- > Cheers, Stuart >
