Yes, kars are for features what eba are for aries applications. Though David Jencks is currently doing a lot of work in this area to have a nice maven integration for kars, so that building a karaf distribution will be done done in a very simply way by referencing kars as maven dependencies and kars will be created as a maven packaging along with features.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 16:46, Charles Moulliard <cmoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it similar to eba archive of Aries ? > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Adrian Trenaman > <adrian.trena...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> The purpose of the Kar file is to facilitate easy packaging and >> deployment of Karaf features. A feature can have its own bundles *and* >> all its dependencies placed in a Kar; then, when the Kar archive file >> is dropped into a deploy directory, the bundles are extracted to the >> local drive in a psuedo-Maven directory structure, and any features >> files therein are automatically registered in the runtime. This makes >> deployment of Karaf solutions easier, particularly when on production >> machines where Maven resolution is not possible. >> >> On 24/01/2011, Charles Moulliard <cmoulli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> What is the purpose of the archive kar that we can deploy now on Karaf >>> ? Benefits ? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Charles Moulliard >>> >>> Sr. Principal Solution Architect - FuseSource >>> Apache Committer >>> >>> Blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com >>> Twitter : http://twitter.com/cmoulliard >>> Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmoulliard >>> Skype: cmoulliard >>> >> > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
