Re: features.xml and classpath URL handler

[Oliver Lietz]

On Friday 09 September 2016 15:04:16 Alex Soto wrote:
> Thank you!  This worked now:
> 
>       <feature name="pax-url-handler">
>               
> <bundle>mvn:org.ops4j.base/ops4j-base-util-property/1.5.0</bundle>
>               <bundle>mvn:org.ops4j.base/ops4j-base-lang/1.5.0</bundle>
>          
>       <bundle>mvn:org.ops4j.pax.swissbox/pax-swissbox-property/1.8.2</bundle>
> <bundle>mvn:org.ops4j.pax.url/pax-url-commons/2.4.7</bundle>
> <bundle>mvn:org.ops4j.pax.url/pax-url-classpath/2.4.7</bundle> </feature>
> 
>       <feature name=‘my-feature' version='${project.version}'>
> 
>               <feature prerequisite="true">pax-url-handler</feature>
> 
>               <configfile finalname="${karaf.etc}/my.config.cfg">
>                       classpath:my.config.cfg
>               </configfile>
> 
> 
> So the config file is now correctly read from the class path.  I think it
> can be argued that deploying config files from the class path is the most
> common scenario, so it may be useful to have the classpath URL handler
> already preloaded as part of standard Karaf, otherwise the ability to
> deploy from a resource becomes very obscure.  Even more obscure, given that
> there are not examples on how to do this.

At least having a feature in Karaf for pax-url-classpath (like we have for 
wrap) would be nice.

Regards,
O.

> Thanks and best regards,
> Alex soto
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