I think this situation is not so straightforward.

The issue that we face here is that we have two different actors trying to control what gets included in the resulting bundle JAR file, i.e., BND and Maven.

It is not the case that BND copies the raw resources, the issue is that BND is probably overwriting the copied resources when generating the bundle content because it defaults to "src/main/resources" like Maven without property substitution. You can tell BND to use property substitution too (e.g., "{src/main/resources}"), then it might work the way that you want.

Ultimately, I would argue that users of maven-bundle-plugin should let the plugin (i.e., BND) be in control of defining the content of the JAR and to not use Maven's facilities at all for class or resource inclusion. This means that the content of the JAR file would be completely discernible from <Private-Package>, <Export-Package>, and <Include-Resource>.

I agree that we could perhaps come up with a better default value for <Include-Resource>, which could suck in the values of <resources/>, so that way if people do use it they get closer to what they are expecting. This is essentially the patch that Alin submitted in the body of FELIX-261. I would, however, argue against the patch submitted by Stuart, since this appears to convert the resources into the target directories, which then relies on Maven copying them in there, when BND already has that capability.

Obviously, this is not a clear cut situation, but from my point of view we should encourage users of the plugin to rely on the plugin for all of their needs as the proper way of using it. In the end, this will be beneficial if they ever need to change their build to use BND stand alone or use it with the Ant task, because the <instructions> will be self-contained.

-> richard

Stuart McCulloch wrote:
Yep - the current snapshot of the bundle-plugin adds 'src/main/resources'
to the BND directives using Include-Resource, instead of using the target
path which has the filtered files.

There's an open bug (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-261) to
address this issue, and also use maven configured resources instead of
a hard-coded location - see patch attached to FELIX-261.

I've been using this patch in the OPS4J branch of the bundle plugin (used
for testing patches and new features) and it seems to work ok, but would
appreciate if someone from Maven (Carlos?) could check it over.

Until then, workaround is to provide your own Include-Resource setting :(

On 09/05/07, Costin Leau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

I'm not sure if it's me but I've noticed that resource filtering doesn't
work any more if bundle packaging is used.

If I have a file inside src/main/resources with a property:
Hello ${name}, with bundle packaging, the 'unexpanded' version is
included in the jar while the expanded version (Hello this is the name)
from target/classes is ignored.


Cheers,
--
Costin



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