Thanks Achim, All three good points :) I knew you could customise the distribution but didn't realise it could be made smaller. Is the minimal version downloadable somewhere or I should make it via the assembly? Do you know what version would I need for Java 1.5 compatibility?
Thanks, Dan. > On 19 May 2016, at 19:36, Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > for pure Felix it would just be the fileinstaller. > Did you check if the minimal karaf is actually small enough? > Another possibility would be to create custom Karafs with profiles. > Just to give you some ideas to look at. :-) > > regards, Achim > > 2016-05-19 18:49 GMT+02:00 Daniel McGreal <[email protected]>: >> Hi Karaf users! >> >> Not strictly a Karaf based question, but I figure that Karaf users may well >> have experience here. >> >> I enjoy using Karaf. One of the best bits is the ability to base my >> deployment model from my compile model via the karaf-maven-plugin and >> generation of the feature file and provision of those bundles via mvn:urls. >> I now need to deploy some code onto devices on which Karaf is just too big >> (I have ~5 megs of disk space) and would like to bring similar orchestration >> to Felix, solo. >> >> Is there something similar for deploying to Felix? >> >> Thanks! >> Dan. >> >> PS I have had a look into OSGi Subsystems and the Aries implementation and >> its Maven plugin. The plugin doesn’t pull in transitives (not the end of the >> world, but harder to manage) and I don’t yet understand how to provision the >> bundles from a repository but will continue this investigation if no better >> line of enquiry shows up. > > > > -- > > Apache Member > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & > Project Lead > blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> > Co-Author of Apache Karaf Cookbook <http://bit.ly/1ps9rkS> > > Software Architect / Project Manager / Scrum Master >
