Inline below: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/31 Aaron Zeckoski <[email protected]> >> >> It's not a huge list but it is the ones I was looking for. > > true, it is a small list of sites - but they do contain thousands of bundles >> >> I guess there is not a central listing somewhere then? > > not at the moment, but I assume the OSGi Alliance could act as a central > point for collecting OBRs - they just need people to tell them the URLs > >> I have used the maven-bundle-plugin but I didn't think I could deploy >> to any repositories except my local one. > > the remote OBR deployment goal is described in the Felix docs - you > just need some hosting service that lets you upload files (the bundle > artifacts and the OBR index) but these don't have to be on the same > server as you can refer to external, absolute bundle URLs from OBR >> >> Is there a repository that I would be allowed to deploy into? > > where do you publish your current project releases / artifacts?
I have a few local repositories but they are project specific and a lot of these bundles are not specifically related to the projects except that they need them. > as I mentioned before, I'm adding OBR support to Nexus - so if it's an > open-source project you could potentially deploy via Nexus and get > them listed in a public OBR automatically > > alternatively perhaps we could setup a general OBR over at OPS4J That would be pretty cool. It is all open source stuff. Thanks for the info! -AZ >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > 2009/5/31 Aaron Zeckoski <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> I am having trouble finding the locations of the OBR xml files for the >> >> repositories out there (like these ones): >> >> http://felix.apache.org/obr/releases.xml >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/sling/obr/repository.xml >> >> http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/repository.xml >> >> >> >> Two repos that I would really like to find these for are: >> >> http://www.osgi.org/Repository >> >> and >> >> http://www.springsource.com/repository/ >> > >> > see http://sigil.codecauldron.org/OBR+Repository for the missing links >> > ;) >> > the main OSGi Alliance OBR is ~14meg so you should definitely cache >> > this file locally to avoid overloading the OSGi Alliance server! >> > >> >> Can anyone help or suggest ways to find these? Is there a central list >> >> of all OBRs somewhere? >> >> >> >> On a similar topic, are there repositories that are especially good >> >> for pushing bundles into? By this I mean it can be done without much >> >> manual intervention and they are used a lot. Or should people >> >> typically be setting up their own? >> > >> > I've been writing an OBR extension for the Nexus repository manager >> > (this will be part of Nexus Pro, which is free for qualifying open >> > source >> > projects - otherwise you would need a commercial license to use this) >> > >> > or you could use the maven-bundle-plugin, which can automatically >> > update both local and remote OBR files thanks to goals contributed >> > by Clement Escoffier (uses Peter's Bindex tool, available from the >> > OSGi Alliance site - I also use this tool to generate OBR metadata) >> > >> > I'm hoping to use the Nexus OBR extension to build up metadata for >> > publicly available bundles (such as all bundles on Maven central, etc.) >> > you could take advantage of this work, or you could setup your own >> > collection using any of the tools listed above >> > >> > HTH >> > >> >> -AZ >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Aaron Zeckoski ([email protected]) >> >> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University >> >> https://twitter.com/azeckoski - http://www.linkedin.com/in/azeckoski >> >> http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/ - >> >> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> OSGi Developer Mail List >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, Stuart >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OSGi Developer Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Aaron Zeckoski ([email protected]) >> Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University >> https://twitter.com/azeckoski - http://www.linkedin.com/in/azeckoski >> http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/ - >> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSGi Developer Mail List >> [email protected] >> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > > -- > Cheers, Stuart > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- Aaron Zeckoski ([email protected]) Senior Research Engineer - CARET - Cambridge University https://twitter.com/azeckoski - http://www.linkedin.com/in/azeckoski http://aaronz-sakai.blogspot.com/ - http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/~aaronz/ _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
