Run junit test cases in maven with OSGi

[Raymond Feng]

Hi,

I have prototyped a maven plugin that can run junit test cases with the 
Equinox OSGi runtime.  It works as follows:

1) Generate a bundle for the current project with the target/classes
2) Generate a bundle fragment that attaches to the bundle from step 1
3) Find all the maven dependencies and use them as the set of initial 
bundles (the plain jars are converted into a bundle on the fly too)
4) Bootstrap the Equinox runtime
5) Find all test cases and run them with the JUNIT runner
6) Report the results of the test case

To configure a maven project, use the following XML in the pom.xml (See an 
example at [2]):
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.tuscany.sca</groupId>
               <artifactId>tuscany-maven-osgi-junit</artifactId>
               <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
               <executions>
                   <execution>
                       <id>osgi-test</id>
                       <phase>test</phase>
                       <goals>
                           <goal>test</goal>
                       </goals>
                   </execution>
                   <configuration></configuration>
               </executions>
           </plugin>

The ideal approach is to plug in the same logic into the existing 
maven-surefire-plugin. But it doesn't seem that the surefire plugin has such 
plug points.

Please let me know if you have better ideas.

Thanks,
Raymond

[1] 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/java/sca/tools/maven/maven-osgi-junit
[2] 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/java/sca/samples/calculator-osgi/pom.xml