wow... This one is definitely REALLY REALLY great! This will help to
remove almost all wrapped bundles from our projects :D Thank's a ton!

Kind regards,
Andreas

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Alin Dreghiciu <adreghi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If anyone interested in OSGi version of any of Maven Central artifacts
> (jars) you can now get them by using the
> http://grid.sonatype.org:9000/nexus/content/repositories/central/
> repository.
> The osgi bundles are created on demand, meaning that the jar will be
> OSGi-fyed as soon as the first request for it. The generated OSGi
> bundle will have the same Maven coordinates (group/artifact/version)
> as the original non OSGI jar but it will have and "osgi" classifier.
>
> You can use the bundle in a Maven build as for example:
> <dependency>
>  <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
>  <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
>  <version>1.1.1</version>
>  <classifier>osgi</classifier>
> </dependency>
>
> If you want to directly download the bundle, the URL is similar to
> original (non OSGi) version of jar with an additional "-osgi" added in
> front of ".jar" extension as in the following example:
>
> Original jar URL:
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
>
> OSGi bundle URL:
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/commons-logging-1.1.1-osgi.jar
>
> If using Pax Maven URL (Pax runner, Karaf, ...) you can access the bundle as:
> mvn:commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/jar/osgi or
> mvn:commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1//osgi
>
> Of course that if the jar is already an OSGi bundle it will not be 
> transformed.
>
> All of this automatically transformed bundles and all existing bundles
> accessed via the above mentioned repository are available also via OBR
> at:
>
> http://grid.sonatype.org:9000/nexus/content/shadows/central-obr/.meta/obr.xml
>
> Soon I will als make this bundles available as an P2 repository.
>
> Note that this is an "lab" project for now so things might change and
> will have downtimes as I will upgrade them with latest builds of Nexus
> plugins we develop for OSGi.
>
> Feel free to send me your feedback about it so I can improve/fix it if
> needed. Also same features could be enabled for other Maven
> repositories out there.
>
> --
> Alin Dreghiciu
> Software Developer
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