Is there interest in an implementation of the OSGi Initial Provisioning 1.2 service? AFAICT, there is none in Apache Felix. Over the past few days, I've written a clean-room implementation that I could donate to Felix if there's interest. The implementation runs on J2SE-1.4, the test suite on J2SE-1.6 (due to Pax Exam).
There are a few gaps still but it already seems to do the job in my case: - rsh and https protocols are not supported, yet. Only file and http. - InitialProvisioning-Entries manifest header is not yet interpreted. Only ZIP extra fields and file extensions are used to determine the entry type. - There's no guard against endless recursions that might happen with poorly designed ZIP chains. - I'm currently using my own Ant-based build system. A Maven POM would have to be written by someone who knows what he's doing. ;-) I'll gladly post the source code for review if there's interest. Let me know. Cheers, Jeremias Maerki
