Hello, you can use Maven as it is intended and resolve the transitive dependencies. There are some limitations whith this, especially when you have conflicts or optional things (or need implementations), but generally speaking it gives you a start. I typically end up quickly managing the dependencies by hand with excludes however.
A more elaborate method would be to resolve them via OBR, for example Apache ACE is doing that - but in that case also a lot manual intervention is required. It helps in all cases to reduce dependencies (and include them in the bundles) Gruss Bernd Am Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:47:19 +0200 schrieb Christian Schneider <ch...@die-schneider.net>: > Looking forward to Peter's reply to this :-) > > Christian > > On 24.10.2014 16:43, PedroD wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I’m using Felix Framework for my OSGi project, but I’ve came across > > a severe problem concerning third party dependencies. > > > > > > I’m using eclipse and maven-bundle-plugin to generate my bundles > > from the sources and the MANIFEST.MF from the POM.XML file. So far > > so good. however when I have some third party dependency in my > > bundle, I find myself looking for an infinite list of JARs, which > > usually are not bundles, and putting them in my /bundle Felix > > directory until no more dependencies are missing. > > > > I call this process “Downloading the Internet for my OSGi > > application to work”. > > > > What am I doing wrong? Sure I must be doing something very wrong, > > because I can’t imagine anyone having a bundle A that depends on B, > > which then depends on C and D, and then those two will depend on > > several others and so on… to go look for ALL those dependencies > > manually using google or maven central! That's insane! > > > > What is the correct way to automate this? I would love to have one > > of the two solutions: > > > > 1) Be able to create a massive JAR file with all of its > > dependencies embedded, but exporting only the packages I want, and, > > of corse, not importing any package. > > > > 2) (My preferred solution) Having a way to get all my dependencies > > into individual JAR files that I can simply paste into the /bundle > > directory. > > > > 3) (Even more preferred) Having a way to use third party JARs > > without downloading 8GB of dependencies to my project. > > > > I have found tools that do me this, *but just for direct (1st > > degree) dependencies*, leaving transitive dependencies for me to > > solve manually. > > > > This problem is critical. The lack of such a tool hampers the usage > > of OSGi. I’ve searched and searched and searched, I’ve came across > > all the 101 solutions such as PAX, bndtools, and friends, but it > > seems that they *do not* solve this issue… > > > > Please help me. *Please provide a living example if you can, people > > like me around the world will benefit from the solution to this > > problem.* > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OSGi Developer Mail List > > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
