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Hello Stuart,

it would be great to start such a thing!

Stuart McCulloch schrieb:
> On 05/03/2008, Siamak Haschemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> is someone currently working on a maven-deployment-plugin to produce
> OSGi Deployment Packages (*.dp) (like specified in the OSGi Service
> Platform Service Compendium, Release 4, Version 4.1, Sec. 114)?
> 
> 
>> Hi Siamak,
> 
>> as Christian said, I don't know of one yet - but it would be useful
> 
>> If no, where should I start?
> 
> 
>> I have a fair bit of experience writing Maven plugins so I can help
>> out with any mojo/dependency questions 

That's great since I'm new in Maven Plugin development.

- - I'm trying to find out
>> if we could start this work over at another site (where you could
>> get committer rights straight away) and bring it over to the Felix
>> site once the design has stabilized...
> 
>> Looking at the maven-bundle-plugin is naturally, but I am insecure if I
> should base on the bndlib to use the several classes like "Jar" and
> "Manifest" or if such a extended classpath traversing and dependency
> checking is needless.
> 
> 
>> personally I'd start coding on creating the deployment package
>> from a minimal set of information (passed in via Java interfaces)
>> because then it's easy to provide different ways to generate the
>> information (manual list, dependency analysis, etc...)

I need more explanation on this, but we could also move this to an other
place...

> 
>> you might also want to look at the maven-assembly-plugin which
>> is the standard maven approach for producing distributions from
>> maven projects - might be able to re-use ideas / components

Thank you for this hint! I will look deeper into Plugin development.

Anyway, I started to develop a plugin for deployment based on the felix
maven-bundle-plugin. I have to play around with the maven framework :-)


Kind regards,

Siamak Haschemi

> 
>> HTH
> 
>> Any hints?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Siamak Haschemi
> 
>>

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