Excellent news! What about having something like that on central repo, as in time I expect that number of osgi jars will increase ;)
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Apache Archiva (Maven Repository Software) is obviously working on > support for OBR ! > > This is great news IMHO ! > > Regards > Felix > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: OSGi Bundle Repository support for Archiva > Datum: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:35:37 +1100 > Von: James William Dumay <[email protected]> > Antwort an: [email protected] > An: [email protected], [email protected] > > Hey guys, > I started some work on building an OBR repository consumer that will > produce a repository.xml file in the root of the managed repositories. > > For those who don't know OBR is the OSGi Bundle Repository [1]. The > repository.xml (or .zip) describes the bundles, their locations and > versions that are available in the repository (or a remote one for that > matter). > > OSGi bundles deployed using Maven to Archiva (or simply placed in the > repository) should then be made almost immediately available via OBR > clients. > > Anyway, this should give us the basis for excellent support in Archiva > OSGi. Atlassian plan to use Archiva as the platform for serving plugins > and their dependent OSGi bundles - which is really cool :) > > > Anyone have any thoughts, questions? > > Cheers, > James > > [1] > http://www.osgi.org/Download/File?url=/download/rfc-0112_BundleRepository.pdf > > > > -- Alin Dreghiciu http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software. http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. http://malaysia.jayway.net - New Energy for Projects - Great People working on Great Projects at Great Places
