Thanks Graham, I'll have a look at it soon.

David

On 20 July 2012 11:11, Holly Cummins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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