On 03/03/2008, jaredmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Is there any way to have something other than a jar file be a > bundle/plugin? > That is, is there any way to express that this list of classes, or this > particular package, is the bundle?
Hi Jared, as Richard mentioned, you can install bundles based on directories (ie. the same structure as a jarfile, but "exploded") and you can also programmatically install bundles from an InputStream, but again this expects the contents to be in jarfile format. I looked over the OSGi spec and it seems that a bundle is strictly a jar, > but I figured I'd ask here. > > I ask because our current build system does not lend itself toward > arbitrary > jarring of the chunks of code that we'd want to make into bundles. well, Peter Krien's Bnd tool lets you to take a project classpath and split it into one or more bundles - I believe that's the main reason why he developed it. for example: bnd build -classpath <project-classpath> -output a.jar a.bnd bnd build -classpath <project-classpath> -output b.jar b.bnd bnd build -classpath <project-classpath> -output c.jar c.bnd where a.bnd, b.bnd and c.bnd contain instructions for pulling classes and resources from the project classpath into the relevant bundles. more details can be found here: http://aqute.biz/Code/Bnd HTH Thanks, > Jared > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/non-jar-as-bundle-unit-tp15805581p15805581.html > Sent from the Apache Felix - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cheers, Stuart
