On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 05:14, Enrique Rodriguez wrote: > Hi, Felix list, > > I intend to write a new Maven 2.0 plugin this weekend, tentatively > called the "Felix Product Plugin."
So this would be an new version of the current maven-osgi-plugin right? > The intent of this plugin is to > combine the Felix runtime with jars gathered from Maven repos and > combine them into a tarball that, when exploded, yields the usual > .sh/.bat file for running Felix and installing and starting bundles as a > complete "Felix product." With a 'Felix Product Plugin' would we still need to have the functionality in Felix to do a 'Oscar like' install procedure as mentioned in the recent 'Installing Felix email thread'? > o To interrogate dependencies in the POM for their 'packaging' type. > If 'jar' they are added to the classpath. If 'osgi-bundle' they are > added to the bundle/ dir and the config.properties is built such that > the bundle is installed and/or started in the Felix runtime. I have no > idea how I am going to configure initial start levels, so I'll likely > make them all "1" for the first version. This could be easy; I just > haven't looked. Couldn't these be addition child elements added to the dependency elements? > o To put the usual Felix files in the right places; bundles to bundle/, > runtime to lib/, license, .bat, and .sh to the root, etc. > > o To start a Main with the Felix runtime loaded with the config.properties. > > o To assemble everything into a suitable (tgz?) artifact with the > maven-assembly-plugin. Great idea! Look forward to working with this. John
