Hi, I approach you after spending days of research, resulted in only vague high level understating of a solution to our problem. In my organization, we're intending to embed OSGi into our application. We're currently exploring the change that will result from moving to OSGi, in aspect of provisioning / building our application. Till today, we're using Maven as our build tool. So every developer in the team, in his day-to-day work, can make some changes in the code, run maven install, and Maven will take care of pulling in the transitive dependencies, compiling and building the target jars. Now, moving to OSGi. Working the same way won't be sufficient, as Maven may pull in transitive dependencies which aren't bundles. In addition, Maven can successfully compile our project, although some Manifest requirements are missing, which means the OSGi FW will not resolve. But we do want as much automation of the process as possible, so what do we do? We want that:
1. When building our project, we'll automatically get bundle versions of our 3rd parties, including bundle versions of their transitive dependencies, without the need to specify transitive dependencies. 2. After build we want to verify that our OSGi FW can be resolved. I.e. all bundles can be in ACTIVE state. I read a lot about it and managed to conclude that what we need is OBR. However, although I read a lot about OBR, I can't get the puzzle fixed. I couldn't find any hands-on tutorial of working with OBR end to end. I do understand that the main players in the game are: bundles repositories and a resolver. I understand that I need to start with my own modules as the initial set of bundles and that OBR should then automatically pull my missing dependencies from the repositories and resolve the OSGi FW. But how exactly to do that? 1. Do we need to implement anything, or there're implementations that we can use? 2. What is the trigger for this process to start during/instead Maven build? 3. We use Equinox. Does the resolver is the Equinox resolver? How can I activate it in the OBR process? 4. What are my options for public repositories that contains known 3rd parties? 5. What happens if the 3rd party I need doesn't exist in my bundles repositories? Does the process fail? 6. There's, for example, the Apache Felix OBR. Is it an implementation of the repository or the resolver or both? 7. Does OBR work fluently, or it has many issues? Any help will be much appreciated Regards, Eran Confidentiality: This communication and any attachments are intended for the above-named persons only and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of NICE Actimize. If this communication has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please delete/destroy and inform the sender by e-mail immediately. Monitoring: NICE Actimize may monitor incoming and outgoing e-mails. Viruses: Although we have taken steps toward ensuring that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.
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