On Wednesday 03 January 2018 14:55:27 Konrad Windszus wrote: > Please check out https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7351 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-7351> and the attached PR > which should include that file in the generated bundle.
Thanks, Konrad. See my comment - that is now my preferred option. O. > > On 3. Jan 2018, at 14:10, Konrad Windszus <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Pax Exam is running fine with the generated JAR and only META- > >> INF/maven/dependencies.properties is missing for depends-maven-plugin. > >> > >> Therefore I prefer a third option which is configured in Parent, adds > >> dependencies.properties to the JAR if present and leaves everything else > >> as > >> is. Not sure why dependencies.properties is not picked up at all. > > > > Ok, I see. > > The reason why this is not being picked up by default is due to the way > > how bnd works internally. It will only add ".class" files and apart from > > that only resources being passed via the instruction "Include-Resource" > > (http://bnd.bndtools.org/instructions/includeresource.html > > <http://bnd.bndtools.org/instructions/includeresource.html>). Still I > > would argue that the dependencies.properties is not that useful to have > > in the final bundle (except for the use case of pax-exam). But maybe its > > file size is so small that it doesn't really matter here.
