[ANN] Felix maven-bundle-plugin version 2.3.5 and Bundle Repository 1.6.6 Released

[Stuart McCulloch <mc...@gmail.com>]

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of maven-bundle-plugin
version 2.3.5 and Bundle Repository 1.6.6

The maven-bundle-plugin is based on the http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Bnd/ tool
from Peter Kriens and lets you create OSGi bundles for new and existing
Maven projects:

  http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html

The Felix Bundle Repository provides a service to query, install, and update
a bundle (along with its deployment dependencies) from one or more OSGi
bundle repositories:

  http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-bundle-repository.html

The releases are available from
http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgiand Maven:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.5</version>
  </plugin>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.felix.bundlerepository</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.6</version>
  </dependency>

Release Notes:

  maven-bundle-plugin version 2.3.5


   - [FELIX-3011 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3011>] - Add a
   new goal to save the bnd instructions that would be passed onto bnd, to
   allow people to use other toolchains such as bndtools
   - [FELIX-344 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-344>] -
   Generate standard maven documentation for the maven-bundle-plugin
   - [FELIX-1836 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1836>] - Maven
   resource filtering support for obr.xml
   - [FELIX-1039 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1039>] -
   Inconsistency packaging vs. type
   - [FELIX-1571 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1571>] -
   Bundle-ClassPath without "." while using maven-bundle-plugin in a war
   project confuses the plugin
   - [FELIX-1734 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1734>] - The
   _donotcopy is ignored
   - [FELIX-1985 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1985>] - Error
   when Include-Resource instruction contains duplicate paths.
   - [FELIX-2346 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2346>] - mvn
   bundle:clean removes all, even the existing resources
   - [FELIX-2427 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2427>] - maven
   site crashes
   - [FELIX-2435 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2435>] -
   <supportedProjectType> on a WAR file will switch the project to generate jar
   artifacts
   - [FELIX-2449 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2449>] -
   Resource filtering does not use Maven properties specified on the mvn
   command line via -D command line switches
   - [FELIX-2656 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2656>] -
   Maven-bundle-plugin identified as not thread-safe in Maven 3.0
   - [FELIX-2722 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2722>] - With
   an empty organization like this <organization/>, maven bundle plugin raises
   a NPE.
   - [FELIX-2765 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2765>] -
   bundle plugin throw IllegalArgumentException while do the install
   - [FELIX-2819 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2819>] -
   packageinfo files in src/main/java are ignored
   - [FELIX-2820 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2820>] -
   Provide a default value when using <_wab/>
   - [FELIX-2884 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2884>] - The
   multiplicity isn't taken into account by the maven bundle plugin and
   bundlerepository when generating the repository xml
   - [FELIX-2914 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2914>] -
   Nullpointer exception on mvn install if the pom contains organization/url
   but not organization/name
   - [FELIX-2934 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2934>] -
   Bundle-ClassPath contains "." despite using _wab instruction


  Bundle Repository 1.6.6


   - [FELIX-2612 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2612>] - [OBR]
   Doesn't work on Java 1.4 due to use of Boolean.parseBoolean()
   - [FELIX-2884 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2884>] - The
   multiplicity isn't taken into account by the maven bundle plugin and
   bundlerepository when generating the repository xml
   - [FELIX-2912 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2912>] - Host
   name is lost in exceptions when dealing with Windows shared drives
   - [FELIX-2958 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2958>] -
   Unable to remove previously added repository from OBR


Enjoy!

-The Felix team




-- 
Cheers, Stuart