Hi Michael, Transitive dependencies are a great thing and huge plus for Maven 2 over Maven 1. On the other hand, if not judiciosly configured, transitive dependencies may quickly evolve to a huge pile of libraries being packed when using packing plugins like the maven-bundle-plugin (as well as the war plugin for that matter).
In this sense, and as the OSGi bundleing should really only package the contents of specific libraries, I think an option to the maven-bundle-plugin to ignore transitive dependencies would probably make sense. So you have all advantages on your side: you package only what you explicitly declare but maven projects do not loose transitive dependencies. Regards Felix On 3/9/07, Hampel, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Alin, I don't understand why you would have to exclude the dependencies - as far as I Understood the maven-bundle plugin is not doing anything with the maven dependencies. If the dependencies are excluded (like in the hibernate osgi pom) and I add the hibernate Osgi jar as a dependency to my project, I would loose the transitive capability of maven as the Transitive dependencies of hibernate are not added anymore, e.g.: when doing eclipse:eclipse. On the other side it makes sense to exclude the dependencies, because I also will have to wrap the Hibernate dependencies to become osgi bundles - so the jta dependencies will change to a jta-osgi dependency.... Does this mean I have to forget about maven's transitive capabilites? Maybe I am thinking completely wrong here - but probably you could shed some light, Thanx, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alin Dreghiciu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 08. März 2007 14:18 An: felix-dev@incubator.apache.org Betreff: maven-bundle-plugin, wrapping and excludeTransitive About jar wrapping: Most of the time (at least in the cases I had) you would like to wrap only the content of the jar you are targeting and not also the transitive dependencies that the targeted jar has. You can do this in at least two ways: 1. add <exclusions> to the dependency. This is verbose for the case that the targeted jar has extensive dependencies and irrelevant to the process of wrapping 2. set the Export-package directive to export only those packages that you want. here you have to know the internals of the package and if the jar has some resources as licences, xmls' outside the main package you have to add them one by one. So, here I am proposing a new configuration option: excludeTransitive that is suppose to exclude the transitive artifacts if set to true. An example implementation can be found at the following location: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/xref/org/apache/maven/plugin/dependency/utils/filters/TransitivityFilter.html Alin Dreghiciu PS. Maven does not support a property of the articat as isTransitive() < http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/xref/org/apache/maven/plugin/dependency/utils/filters/TransitivityFilter.html >
