While I find the idea interesting, I'm a bit skeptical on the real usefulness of that. Could you share a bit more informations on how the jars are turned into bundles ? Given maven repositories are supposed to be immutable, what if I find some errors in the osgi metadata and want to fix it ? How is that different than using the wrap url handler ? It seems to me that at least, with the url handler, you are in control and don't hit the above problems. Thoughts?
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 15:36, 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. > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
