Hi David, thanks for the info. I'll have a look at the karaf 3 plugin. Is there any documentation regarding the usage in karaf 3 ?
Thanks and Cheers, Michael 2011/8/5 David Jencks <[email protected]> > I had roughly the same experience so I rewrote those parts of the plugin > for karaf 3 (trunk, not yet released). I think if you build your features > and kar using the trunk snapshot plugin they will work on karaf 2.2.2, but I > haven't tried. In trunk there are feature and kar packagings which make > using the plugin much easier. > > david jencks > > On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Michael Täschner wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am quite new with karaf and I my current goal is to create a kar with > features of my multi-module project. I frequently read the karaf-users > mailing list and tried to figure stuff out reading the guide ( > http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/developers-guide/features-maven-plugin.html) > but the information there is incomplete and outdated. So here are my issues: > > - using the "generate-features-xml" goal (having all to be included bundles > as dependencies in the pom) it does create a features.xml file but creates > one feature for each bundle instead of collecting them into the one feature > I want to set up > > - switched to trying the "features:add-features-to-repo" and provided the > modified features.xml by myself the plugin copies tons of bundles into the > repository folder even though I have no dependencies in the pom and set the > properties "includeDependencies" and "addTransitiveFeatures" to false. > Additionally since my bundles use packaging "bundle" the corresponding files > have a .bundle extension instead of .jar > > Can someone give me an advice how to modify the settings to collect the > bundles defined in features.xml and how to package the outcome into a .kar > archive ? > > Thanks and Regards, > Michael > > features-maven-plugin version: 2.2.2 > > >
