Hi, This is up and running for a month now and I see that has been used so guys, can you give some feedback? Do you find it useful? Do you use it or have plans to use it? What improvements could be done?
Thanx, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:36 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 > My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alindreghiciu > My blog: http://adreghiciu.wordpress.com > http://sonatype.com - Sonatype - The Maven Company > http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open > Participation Software. > -- Alin Dreghiciu Software Developer My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alindreghiciu My blog: http://adreghiciu.wordpress.com http://sonatype.com - Sonatype - The Maven Company http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software. _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
