Such a tool does exist… for example the Embed-Dependency and Embed-Transitive instructions in the maven-bundle-plugin. Of course, the price is that every bundle will contain its own copy of every library. So if you think this solves the problem then I recommend not bothering with OSGi or any other module system.
Ultimately there can be no automated substitute for developers paying attention to the two principles of modular composition: high cohesion and low coupling. When developers fail to do this (as the Quartz developers apparently did), users suffer. Neil > On 11 Oct 2015, at 16:17, Pedro Domingues <pedro.doming...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: > > I understand that everything has dependencies, however I wish this embedding > could be automated, for example having maven downloading and embedding > transitive dependencies into the quartz bundle. > > Thanks > > On 11/10/2015 16:08, e...@zusammenkunft.net <mailto:e...@zusammenkunft.net> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Have to agree with Neil, hower I want to add, that the bundling of Quartz >> here is the problem, it could make some dependencies optional and it could >> even add some of the dependencies inside the bundle. This is what I did with >> Quartz, I embedded Quartz and some of its dependencies inside a bundle to >> greatly remove its external dependencies. You can even overwrite/remove some >> imports for unused artifacts. Quartz needs this special treatment since its >> a big ugly blob of goo. >> >> Greetings >> Bernd >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org > <mailto:users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > <mailto:users-h...@felix.apache.org>
