We are aware of how to currently build the project with Maven (using m2e and related tools). The point is that this way of developing and building the project is a lot slower. For example, if I now want to change a single Java file in one project, I then need to manually rebuild that project, then rebuild the assembly, and if I had for example the ACE server running, I need to either update that bundle myself, or even worse, restart the whole application. All of these steps can no doubt be automated if you spend enough effort with Maven, but this stuff works out of the box with BndTools, which is why I proposed the whole move.
So we do not intend to keep all the pom files that Maven requires but instead just create a few bnd files with the bundle definitions and let BndTools do the rest. Greetings, Marcel On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Rafał Krzewski wrote: > On 06/28/2012 11:45 AM, Tang Yong wrote: >> Hello Rafal, >> >> > From my experience, Bndtools + maven-bundle-plugin combination works >> > quite well. You don't need to migrate away from Maven to Ant in order >to >> > use Bndtools. >> >> Real Case is that: >> >> how to import the maven-built large project into bndtools including mave n >> repo's setting. >> > First off, I assume that the project is OSGi application built using > maven-bundle-plugin. > You should use fairly new Eclipse - 3.8 or 4.2, m2e 1.1, maven-bundle-plugin > 2.3.6+ and current Tycho m2e connector. The last is quite counter-intuitive, > but it is in fact necessary. > With this set of tools, you should be able to import the project into eclipse > workspace using "Import existing Maven projects into Workspace" and it should > build cleanly. If the build is using non-standard plugins you might run into > m2e connector problems. There are different solutions, depending on what > plugins are in use. I can offer some assistance here, too. > > Once you have the all the dependencies resolved, and all the sources > building, you can introduce Bndtools into the mix. You should create bnd.bnd > files in each module an move the configuration of BND from > maven-bundle-plugin section to that file, and add Bndtools project nature to > your project. After this is done, the modules will appear in Bndtools > "workspace" repository. Once you have the Workspace repository populated, you > can set up some run descriptors to spin up an OSGi framework and run your > appplication straight from workspace. Your bundles will be updated in the > framework on Save action on and editor, which is allows for really smooth > work flow. > > Please note that you should be using m2e provided classpath container for > compile-time dependencies in Eclipse. This ensures that the project will > build the same way both in Eclipse and outside it (on CI server etc). The > runtime classpath is managed by Bndtools, and is composed of bundles from OBR > repositories. Maven repositories can be exposed as OBR repositories in > several ways, Nexus OSS + OBR plugin being probably the most flexible, but > there are simpler zero-investment solutions - repository.xml can be generated > with OSGi Bindex tool, or maven-bundle-plugin. > > regards, > Rafał > > >> BTW: which version of bndtools are you using? Version 1.0.0? >> >> > mine :) I can share some experiences/tips if anyone is interested. >> I want to know very much! Thanks! >> >> -Best Regrads >> -Tang > > >
