Andrei, Wayne is right, the dependencies (or even depMgt) section is NOT a place for information like these. This is Karaf plugin specific, it must go into plugin configuration.
As _similar_ example, here is a quite simple example, but with very similar intention (true, the amount of params here is 1, but the plugin config is easily extensible to receive whatever you want): https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-plugin-bundle This plugin above is meant to create Nexus Plugin Bundles. While those are NOT OSGi plugins, they are "designed" similarly. Every Nexus plugin (might) have a set of dependencies, and it might choose to keep the "private" or "export" them (make those available for other plugin bundles depending on this plugin). A good example plugin configuration is the one for nexus-indexer-lucene-plugin (that bundles Maven Indexer as Nexus plugin). The Maven Indexer API sadly has Lucene refefences, so it _has_ to export Lucene too. Hence, the nexus-plugin-bundle-plugin config looks like this: https://github.com/sonatype/nexus/blob/master/plugins/indexer/nexus-indexer-lucene-plugin/pom.xml#L135 As you see, the plugin defines dependencies "as usual", and the plugin configuration simply enlists the GAs of deps needed to make them public. This means that change for plugin config is needed only when G or A changes of a dependency, or a new dependency needs to be exported... Now, in your case, this list here https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-plugin-bundle/blob/master/maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonatype/nexus/pluginbundle/maven/GenerateMetadataMojo.java#L83 Might be something other than List<String>, it might be a list of some beans, or even list of maps (can maven do that from plugin config?) that can hold ANY property you want to use in your plugin. HTH, ~t~ On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Andrei Pozolotin <[email protected] > wrote: > *Wayne* > > 1) in this case "I choose madness" :-) > > 2) here is my request: > please provide an option to modello or whoever is enforcing strict > xml model in maven > to relax the rules, so people can use maven they way it fits them, > while enforcing the rules by default. > > Thank you, > > Andrei > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache 3.1.0-alpha-1 > From: Wayne Fay <[email protected]> > To: Andrei Pozolotin <[email protected]> > Cc: Maven Developers List <[email protected]> > Date: Thu 04 Apr 2013 09:56:40 AM CDT > >> the way I understand your suggestions is essentially I must duplicate > >> configuration: > > Yes, just like you do with the other plugins mentioned. > > > > Wayne > > > > >
