Hello Ryan, On Jun 18, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Ryan Moquin <[email protected]> wrote:
> No problem. I love all the work that's being done around OSGI and > especially Karaf. ACE looks very promising and I'd like to find a way to > fit it in. It's not necessarily a gui thing, it's an "anything thing" to > try to find a way to tie karaf features and ACE together. It almost makes > me think that the karaf plugin shoukd have an oprion to deploy to ace > somehow. Something like that would indeed be a nice idea. It would certainly help a lot of people using Karaf. A while ago we looked into supporting the features from Karaf in ACE, but ran into some issues that made a direct mapping a bit harder. Those have been summarized in an analysis [1] and bug reports about the lack of life cycle [2] and upgrade [3] support of such features. That does not mean you could, in most circumstances, take a Karaf feature definition file and somehow convert it into ACE features (and/or distributions). > I've dug into that code like most of the rrast and make I could > try to hook something in, or maybe I could start a separate Maven plugin. Sounds like a good idea. > I've been on one of my obsessive major forking and "improving" of Apache > Cellar (not even sure how the last month has appeared to lead to 8K changes > tovthe origibal repo). Hopefully I can wrap that up soon and then maybe > I'll dtart on a maven plugin or something if that nake sense? I'm not > familiar with bndrun but I'll take a look at it. Its format is pretty straightforward (it's a bnd file) and lists all bundles in a run configuration. Greetings, Marcel [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ACE/Deployment+Admin+extension+-+Multiple+versions+of+same+symbolic+name [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-400 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-399
