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Reputation: 5184

Using OSGI bundles with sbt or maven

I had this crazy idea since a long time so decided to finally ask. Is there some project for integrating bundles directly into the the build process without explicitly doing extra work of including an osgi container and adding bundles etc. So the basic idea being in you build.sbt or pom.xml you just specify your dependency like you normally do and instead of fetching the jars, sbt or mvn fetches bundles (if available) for your dependency. And on building the project a container of your choice would be downloaded and bundles (and jars) would be added to it automatically ? Just like a fairy tale.

EDIT: By the last part i meant something along the lines of felix gogo which will create a script for adding bundles to run container with them. Althogh thats too much to ask for but after the build i can just run a script and my whole project will run on an osgi container free from jar hell.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 471

Answers (1)

Christian Schneider
Christian Schneider

Reputation: 19606

This already works today. You simply use the maven bundle plugin to create a bundle of your code during the build process. Many of the jars in maven central already are bundles. So you just specify them as normal dependencies.

I am not sure what you want to achieve in the last part. Downlaoding the container and adding the bundles. The build process just creates the jar. Why should it load a container?

If you want to do this for testing purposes then pax exam is what you search. It does exactly what your describe for your unit tests. It downloads a container, adds your bundles and deploys and runs your test in the container.

Upvotes: 1

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