Hi Daniel Please try these urls
* http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/karaf/4.0.5/apache-karaf-minimal-4.0.5.tar.gz. * http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/karaf/3.0.6/apache-karaf-minimal-3.0.6.tar.gz But the both versions support Java 7, 8 (and 6 in case of 3.0.x) Regards Krzysztof On 19.05.2016 23:44, Daniel McGreal wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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 >> -- Krzysztof Sobkowiak (@ksobkowiak) JEE & OSS Architect, Integration Architect Apache Software Foundation Member (http://apache.org/) Apache ServiceMix Committer & PMC Member (http://servicemix.apache.org/) Senior Solution Architect @ Capgemini SSC (http://www.capgeminisoftware.pl/)
