Hi
I'm one of the persons responsible for the build in our company.
Frankly, I don't have a clue about OSGI, because I'm on the server side
of things (and we use JEE).
However, the idea is that the server part offers some APIs; every API
resides in a Maven project, whose artifact can be used by some other
plain Java class or by Eclipse (we use RCP for our client).
So, after a client team member showed me that an OSGI bundle just
differs by the content of its MANIFEST.MF, I looked around and found
your excellent Felix plugin.
However, I see a problem which I can't resolve with my limited
knowledge.
Let's say my API uses other libraries, like Commons Lang. The default
way that Felix offers is to include all Maven dependencies as JARs in
the bundle JAR. This works, but I don't see the point in having the same
JAR over and over again in separate bundles. Maybe someone can explain
this to me.
So, we're looking for an alternative, which is to have the Maven
dependencies point to the OSGI bundles which SpringSource offers.
For instance:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>com.springsource.org.apache.commons.lang</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
The idea is that all these bundles are then downloaded to some place and
that (in my example) the API just uses the Require-Bundle to state its
dependencies. However, I have no idea how to do this with the Felix
plugin. Is it possible at all? Does it make sense at all?
As I said, I'm new to all of this, and maybe my ideas are completely
weird :-)
But any help is greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Eric
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