yeah.....very interesting

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Alin Dreghiciu <adreghi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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> > My blog: http://adreghiciu.wordpress.com
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>
>
>
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