[Httpcomponents Wiki] Update of "HttpComponentsAndOSGi" by RolandWeber

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  OSGi bundles are JARs with additional metadata that allows for easy deployment of
  the bundles in OSGi frameworks, such as Apache Felix or Eclipse Equinox. Since the
- difference is only the metadata, I (Roland Weber) will look into generating OSGi bundles
+ difference is only the metadata, we should be looking into generating OSGi bundles
- instead of plain JARs for the HttpComponents. I'll record my ideas and progress on
- this page, hoping to eventually turn that into documentation useful for others.
+ instead of plain JARs for the HttpComponents. This page is meant for recording ideas
+ and progress
  
  == Tools ==
  
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  That plugin creates complete OSGi bundles, not just the additional metadata.
  As such, it would have to replace the currently used maven-jar-plugin for our release builds.
  The maven-jar-plugin is specified in the component's parent POM, applicable for all modules in all components.
+ 
+ Alternatively, it is possible to manually define the metadata in pom.xml instead of generating it.
+ See [http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/CommonsOsgi here (bottom)] for an example.
  
  == Plan ==
  
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  == Status ==
  
- Read through the maven-bundle-plugin documentation.
- No hands-on experiments yet.
- 
- == Progress ==
- 
  not yet started
  

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