Hi all,
I've playing with the current subsystems implementation and thanks to
John Ross fixing some bugs I've been able to get a subsystem with the
CXF-DOSGi functionality working :)
However, I've been thinking what the best way is to create a subsystem
in maven... My current impl has a few issues and maybe others have
some ideas how to improve:
1. My SUBSYSTEM.MF [1] needs to have the OSGi variant of the
${project.version} so it needs to translate 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT into
1.4.0.SNAPSHOT. Anyone know a way to do this?
2. The Subsystem-Content lists all the dependencies of the project.
However, because some of the bundles for this subsystem weren't
developed with OSGi in mind, the start ordering is significant. I
don't know of an easy way to generate this so currently it's hardcoded
and hence duplicated. Also note that fragments obviously don't have a
start-order.
3. In [2] I'm using the maven-assembly plugin to get all the
dependencies zipped up. However I need to have the .esa extension
whereas this plugin insists on .zip. I'm currently achieving that by
copying the .zip file to an .esa and then attaching the .esa to the
project but that's kinda wasteful as it puts both the .zip and the
.esa in the maven repo (and they're a couple of megs each).
2 above might be a bit hard to achieve in the short term, but 1 and 3
might be possible given the right amount of maven-fu?
I guess it would really be nice if there was a maven plugin that could
do all this ;)
Cheers,
David
[1]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/dosgi/trunk/distribution/subsystem/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/SUBSYSTEM.MF
[2]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/dosgi/trunk/distribution/subsystem/pom.xml
