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Posted to user@karaf.apache.org by Michael Täschner <m....@googlemail.com> on 2011/08/05 12:54:38 UTC

Help with features-maven-plugin

Hi All,

I am quite new with karaf and I my current goal is to create a kar with
features of my multi-module project. I frequently read the karaf-users
mailing list and tried to figure stuff out reading the guide (
http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/developers-guide/features-maven-plugin.html)
but the information there is incomplete and outdated. So here are my issues:

- using the "generate-features-xml" goal (having all to be included bundles
as dependencies in the pom) it does create a features.xml file but creates
one feature for each bundle instead of collecting them into the one feature
I want to set up

- switched to trying the "features:add-features-to-repo" and provided the
modified features.xml by myself the plugin copies tons of bundles into the
repository folder even though I have no dependencies in the pom and set the
properties "includeDependencies" and "addTransitiveFeatures" to false.
Additionally since my bundles use packaging "bundle" the corresponding files
have a .bundle extension instead of .jar

Can someone give me an advice how to modify the settings to collect the
bundles defined in features.xml and how to package the outcome into a .kar
archive ?

Thanks and Regards,
Michael

features-maven-plugin version: 2.2.2

Re: Help with features-maven-plugin

Posted by Michael Täschner <m....@googlemail.com>.

Hi David,

can you give me a hint how to use the features-maven-plugin in version
3.0.0-SNAPSHOT to generate features file or more importantly build kar
archive ?

Thanks,
Michael

Am 8. August 2011 10:44 schrieb Michael Täschner <m.taeschner@googlemail.com
>:

> Hi David,
>
> thanks for the info. I'll have a look at the karaf 3 plugin. Is there any
> documentation regarding the usage in karaf 3 ?
>
> Thanks and Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
> 2011/8/5 David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>
>
>> I had roughly the same experience so I rewrote those parts of the plugin
>> for karaf 3 (trunk, not yet released).  I think if you build your features
>> and kar using the trunk snapshot plugin they will work on karaf 2.2.2, but I
>> haven't tried.  In trunk there are feature and kar packagings which make
>> using the plugin much easier.
>>
>> david jencks
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Michael Täschner wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am quite new with karaf and I my current goal is to create a kar with
>> features of my multi-module project. I frequently read the karaf-users
>> mailing list and tried to figure stuff out reading the guide (
>> http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/developers-guide/features-maven-plugin.html)
>> but the information there is incomplete and outdated. So here are my issues:
>>
>> - using the "generate-features-xml" goal (having all to be included
>> bundles as dependencies in the pom) it does create a features.xml file but
>> creates one feature for each bundle instead of collecting them into the one
>> feature I want to set up
>>
>> - switched to trying the "features:add-features-to-repo" and provided the
>> modified features.xml by myself the plugin copies tons of bundles into the
>> repository folder even though I have no dependencies in the pom and set the
>> properties "includeDependencies" and "addTransitiveFeatures" to false.
>> Additionally since my bundles use packaging "bundle" the corresponding files
>> have a .bundle extension instead of .jar
>>
>> Can someone give me an advice how to modify the settings to collect the
>> bundles defined in features.xml and how to package the outcome into a .kar
>> archive ?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Michael
>>
>> features-maven-plugin version: 2.2.2
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Help with features-maven-plugin

Posted by Michael Täschner <m....@googlemail.com>.

Hi David,

thanks for the info. I'll have a look at the karaf 3 plugin. Is there any
documentation regarding the usage in karaf 3 ?

Thanks and Cheers,
Michael

2011/8/5 David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>

> I had roughly the same experience so I rewrote those parts of the plugin
> for karaf 3 (trunk, not yet released).  I think if you build your features
> and kar using the trunk snapshot plugin they will work on karaf 2.2.2, but I
> haven't tried.  In trunk there are feature and kar packagings which make
> using the plugin much easier.
>
> david jencks
>
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Michael Täschner wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am quite new with karaf and I my current goal is to create a kar with
> features of my multi-module project. I frequently read the karaf-users
> mailing list and tried to figure stuff out reading the guide (
> http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/developers-guide/features-maven-plugin.html)
> but the information there is incomplete and outdated. So here are my issues:
>
> - using the "generate-features-xml" goal (having all to be included bundles
> as dependencies in the pom) it does create a features.xml file but creates
> one feature for each bundle instead of collecting them into the one feature
> I want to set up
>
> - switched to trying the "features:add-features-to-repo" and provided the
> modified features.xml by myself the plugin copies tons of bundles into the
> repository folder even though I have no dependencies in the pom and set the
> properties "includeDependencies" and "addTransitiveFeatures" to false.
> Additionally since my bundles use packaging "bundle" the corresponding files
> have a .bundle extension instead of .jar
>
> Can someone give me an advice how to modify the settings to collect the
> bundles defined in features.xml and how to package the outcome into a .kar
> archive ?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Michael
>
> features-maven-plugin version: 2.2.2
>
>
>

Re: Help with features-maven-plugin

Posted by David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>.

I had roughly the same experience so I rewrote those parts of the plugin for karaf 3 (trunk, not yet released).  I think if you build your features and kar using the trunk snapshot plugin they will work on karaf 2.2.2, but I haven't tried.  In trunk there are feature and kar packagings which make using the plugin much easier.

david jencks

On Aug 5, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Michael Täschner wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am quite new with karaf and I my current goal is to create a kar with features of my multi-module project. I frequently read the karaf-users mailing list and tried to figure stuff out reading the guide (http://karaf.apache.org/manual/2.2.2/developers-guide/features-maven-plugin.html) but the information there is incomplete and outdated. So here are my issues:
> 
> - using the "generate-features-xml" goal (having all to be included bundles as dependencies in the pom) it does create a features.xml file but creates one feature for each bundle instead of collecting them into the one feature I want to set up
> 
> - switched to trying the "features:add-features-to-repo" and provided the modified features.xml by myself the plugin copies tons of bundles into the repository folder even though I have no dependencies in the pom and set the properties "includeDependencies" and "addTransitiveFeatures" to false. Additionally since my bundles use packaging "bundle" the corresponding files have a .bundle extension instead of .jar
> 
> Can someone give me an advice how to modify the settings to collect the bundles defined in features.xml and how to package the outcome into a .kar archive ?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Michael
> 
> features-maven-plugin version: 2.2.2