eba-maven-plugin

[David Jencks]

I adapted the maven-rar-plugin to do what I think an eba-maven-plugin  
ought to do and put it under application.  Right now it's not tied  
into the build.  It may need to move elsewhere in the tree to make it  
easier to use in aries itself, building and using plugins in the same  
build can be tricky.

So far you need to write the application.mf yourself and put it in the  
source project under src/main/eba/META-INF/application.mf

To use it your project needs to have

<packaging>eba</packaging>

and configure the plugin with

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.aries.application</groupId>
                <artifactId>eba-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <includeJar>false</includeJar>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

Note the very required extensions element.
By default it builds a jar from the java files in the project and  
installs it in the eba.  The above configures it not to do that.

I haven't tried this on a real eba yet... if  anyone can try that and  
see if the results work that would be great.  I'll probably try  
tomorrow if no one gets there first.

thanks
david jencks