Cool! That will be really useful. Do you think it - and the rest of
the subsystems stuff, in fact - should be hooked into the main build?

Holly

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Graham Charters <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've just committed a first attempt at a esa-maven-plugin.  It largely
> does what the eba-maven-plugin does for OSGi Applications, but for
> Subsystems.  The implementation's based of the eba-maven-plugin.  I
> tidied things up a bit, removed deprecated configuration options, and
> added support for the Subsyste-Type header which doesn't exist for
> ebas.  There are a few things it doesn't support that it would be good
> to add:
> 1. Custom headers - in the <instructions> configuration element
> 2. Version ranges for the content dependencies (i'd thought about
> doing these based on maven dependency version ranges.  alternatively,
> we could just have a version policy configuration option that then
> calculates the ranges (e.g. fixed, minor, mjaor).
> 3. Start-order for contents (this should be relatively easy to add if
> based on the order of the dependencies (or at least the order they're
> presented to the mojo, which is hopefully the same)).
> 4. Probably a whole load of other features :)
>
> Please give it a try and let me know how it goes.  I'd suggest looking
> at the documentation for the eba-maven-plugin to get started.
>
> Regards, Graham.
>
> On 19 July 2012 12:57, Graham Charters <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sorry, I missed this thread the first time round.  David is right, the
>> eba-maven-plugin is the best place to start.  It does also handle
>> versions using the shared maven2osgiconverter (also used by the bundle
>> plugin).
>>
>> I'll have a go at an esa-maven-plugin over the next few days.
>>
>> Regards, Graham.
>>
>> On 2 July 2012 13:38, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am 02.07.2012 um 12:22 schrieb David Bosschaert:
>>>
>>>> Hi Felix,
>>>>
>>>> On 2 July 2012 11:13, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Am 01.07.2012 um 22:06 schrieb David Bosschaert:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering: How could start order be forced in OSGi ?
>>>>>
>>>>> IIRC there is no such thing as start ordering because such an order can 
>>>>> never be guaranteed -- start levels only help to a certain degree.
>>>>
>>>> The start-order is an attribute defined in the Subsystems spec section
>>>> 134.12.1. It simply defines the order in which the bundles are started
>>>> within that subsystem.
>>>
>>> I see, thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Felix

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