basically you create a bundle and embed the dependencies:
eg:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<instructions>
...
<Embed-Dependency>
mail;inline=true,
commons-email;inline=true,
activation;inline=true
</Embed-Dependency>
regards, toby
btw: for most of the asf commons there already exists a bundle. check
the apache felix site for a list of them.
On 4/25/08, Alexander Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not an OSGI expert but will try to answer your questions based on my
> own experiences. Since this is really an OSGI related question I would
> suggest to post your questions again on the Felix mailing list if my answers
> are not enough.
>
>
> > 1) some projects might already annotate their jars with the
> maven-bundle-plugin - but how do I quickly find out if they have when I have
> a lot of external jars to look at?
> >
>
> AFAIK they is no way to figure this out, at least I don't know one. You
> have to check all dependencies. If you are only using parts of these
> frameworks, you can add the packages you need as private packages and the
> maven bundle plugin will add them to the bundle. You may encounter errors
> that one or more packages are missing even if they are not used. Such issues
> can be solved by adding them as dynamic imports. In that case they will only
> be imported when they are available (and used).
>
>
> > 2) there are several bundle repositories (oscar, felix project, etc.), but
> they appear to be small, not-searchable and even undiscoverable via google
> searches...
> >
>
> Sorry, haven't used this yet.
>
>
> > 3) I have read about "wrapper bundles" on this mailing list - but how do
> they look like?
> >
>
> The simplest way is to create a new maven project that has dependencies to
> the projects you want to be contained in your bundle. The add the packages
> you need to be available in OSGI as exported packages. Thus they will be
> added to the bundle and made public so that other bundles can use them.
>
>
> > 4) it's possible with some maven config (I think assembly plugin) to
> "merge" multiple jars in a single one - is it possible to use the bundle
> plugin with that final jar then?
> >
>
> Should be possible by following instructions from 3.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>
