Hi guys,
Following the discussion on a previous mailing list thread, I moved forward on
the features resolver.
I will submit a PR containing a new features.deployer=[true|false] property in
etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg. If true, it’s the current behavior, nothing
change (it’s the default). If false, we won’t use a full resolver, but a very
simple one, just executing/installing what’s in the features xml/json.
On the other hand, waiting Karaf 5, I would like to propose a new tool
(runnable/cli/maven) to "wrap" karaf distribution and user artifacts in a ready
to run jar.
So, basically, it’s mean that we will be able to do something like:
$ karaf-packager —version 4.3.2 —features-repos mvn:…,file:… —features foo,
bar —name mystuff
And the result will be mystuff.jar able to do java -jar mystuff.jar
Of course, we will be able to include Karaf-packager in CI.
Thoughts ?
Karaf 5 already works this way and we did good progress on K5, I will share
details pretty soon.
Regards
JB
