Hi Derek, On 17 March 2014 11:21, Derek Abdine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hm this is fantastic, thanks David (both for the note here and for your > contribution by way of the blog post)! Seems mostly in-line with what I'm > looking for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems also like the > OSGi-standard way of approaching what Apache Karaf calls features in their > provisioning model. Is that right?
Yep, this is the standard way to do it and it was influenced by Apache Karaf features, Spring Plans, Aries 'applications', Eclipse features and other similar technologies. > If I may ask -- is there good tooling support for automating the creation > of .esa files? I use a maven toolchain in-house so something such as the > karaf-maven-plugin and it's ability to generate feature files from Maven > poms would be highly valuable. There is some tooling for it in terms of the ESA Maven Plugin at Apache Aries (http://aries.apache.org/modules/esamavenpluginproject.html). I think the tooling could be improved, but in the end an ESA file is just a zip file and the SUBSYSTEM.MF file is just a text file, so you could use any tools that can produce these as well. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
