The OSGi container should automatically use the MANIFEST.MF in the
jar. That's why it's there. Or how do you do this with other 3rd party
OSGi-ready jar-s?


Thursday, July 28, 2016, 12:08:42 AM, Christoph Rüger wrote:

> Hi,
> I just started trying to be a Freemarker contributor for the first time
> today :)
> I got Eclipse setup and running I could work on a first idea regarding
> error handling. Not much, just some debugging, making a change, see if it
> compiles and has an effect. All fine so far.
>
> In the freemarker.jar (2.3.25) from maven central there is a
> META-INF/MANIFEST.MF with all the required OSGI Bundle headers. Seems that
> this gets generated by bndtools. As I am not familiar with bndtools yet I
> just hard-copied that folder (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF) manually into my
> Eclipse freemarker project, so that our other OSGI bundles can see and
> import this bundle as a dependency.
> This works fine.
>
> *My question(s): *
> 1. What would be a better way instead of copying the MANIFEST.MF from the
> .jar file.
> 2. Anybody using freemarker in an OSGI context and also working with
> freemarker source?
>
> Thanks
> Christoph
>

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Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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