OSGi manifest headers

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Over in the Sling project but probably in other uses we are faced with
the issue to have bundles to be deployed. For some projects we will
create special bundles to contain all required dependencies and for some
projects it is easier for the original library to just be complying OSGi
bundles.

Projects in the latter category certainly are jackrabbit-api,
jackrabbit-jcr-commons and jackrabbit-jcr-rmi. As per JCR-1342 [1] I
setup these projects to not only package the code but to also generate
the OSGi manifest headers. In addition I modified the root POM to
contain pluginManagement entry for the Maven Bundle Plugin which is used
to create the manifest headers.

For more information on the Maven Bundle Plugin please refer to the
respective documentation in the Apache Felix project which maintains
this plugin [2].

Finally to make use of the jackrabbit-jcr-rmi bundle (or library if you
will) easier, I replaced the use of Xerces by the use of JAXP [3].

Please report any issues you encounter. Thanks.

Regards
Felix

[1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1342
[2] http://felix.apache.org/site/maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html
[3] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1343