Re: eba-maven-plugin

[David Jencks]

I think it works.... contents look similar to what was generated  
previously.  I attached a patch to ARIES-120 for ariestrader-all-eba  
in case anyone wants to take a closer look or try deploying it.

thanks
david jencks
On Feb 25, 2010, at 6:25 PM, David Jencks wrote:

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