I'll see what I can figure out Ryan On Jun 21, 2013 12:48 AM, "Marcel Offermans" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > >
