Generating bundle manifest at runtime

[Dmitry Skavish <sk...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I need something a bit unorthodox and it would be great if anybody could
point me in the right direction.

We are using bundle maven plugin, so all our OSGi meta is stored in pom.
Usually we build out product just by running maven, but during development
it's more trouble than it's worth, so I just would like to compile different
modules (OSGi bundles) to their own classes directory using an IDE (Intellij
in our case). Then I need to start OSGi framework, but I don't have bundles
as jars, I have them as "classes" directories. There is a way to install and
start a bundle in felix from a directory using "reference:" url. But the
problem is that there is no bundle manifest in "classes" because bundle
maven plugin generates it only to jar.

So the question is: can I somehow start bundle plugin standalone (at my
runtime) to generate manifest from the specified pom?

I understand that I can use bnd at runtime, but I would like to avoid that
since all my OSGi meta is already in pom, so using bundle plugin would be a
better choice here.

Thanks a lot!

-- 
Dmitry Skavish

Re: Generating bundle manifest at runtime

[Dmitry Skavish <sk...@gmail.com>]

thanks!

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Stuart McCulloch <mc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/12/10 Dmitry Skavish <sk...@gmail.com>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need something a bit unorthodox and it would be great if anybody could
> > point me in the right direction.
> >
> > We are using bundle maven plugin, so all our OSGi meta is stored in pom.
> > Usually we build out product just by running maven, but during
> development
> > it's more trouble than it's worth, so I just would like to compile
> > different
> > modules (OSGi bundles) to their own classes directory using an IDE
> > (Intellij
> > in our case). Then I need to start OSGi framework, but I don't have
> bundles
> > as jars, I have them as "classes" directories. There is a way to install
> > and
> > start a bundle in felix from a directory using "reference:" url. But the
> > problem is that there is no bundle manifest in "classes" because bundle
> > maven plugin generates it only to jar.
> >
>
> if you're using a recent version of the plugin then it should also write
> the
> manifest to target/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
>
> (unless of course you've used the manifestLocation setting to write it to a
> different location)
>
>
> > So the question is: can I somehow start bundle plugin standalone (at my
> > runtime) to generate manifest from the specified pom?
> >
> > I understand that I can use bnd at runtime, but I would like to avoid
> that
> > since all my OSGi meta is already in pom, so using bundle plugin would be
> a
> > better choice here.
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > --
> > Dmitry Skavish
> >
>
> --
> Cheers, Stuart
>



-- 
Dmitry Skavish

Re: Generating bundle manifest at runtime

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

2009/12/10 Dmitry Skavish <sk...@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I need something a bit unorthodox and it would be great if anybody could
> point me in the right direction.
>
> We are using bundle maven plugin, so all our OSGi meta is stored in pom.
> Usually we build out product just by running maven, but during development
> it's more trouble than it's worth, so I just would like to compile
> different
> modules (OSGi bundles) to their own classes directory using an IDE
> (Intellij
> in our case). Then I need to start OSGi framework, but I don't have bundles
> as jars, I have them as "classes" directories. There is a way to install
> and
> start a bundle in felix from a directory using "reference:" url. But the
> problem is that there is no bundle manifest in "classes" because bundle
> maven plugin generates it only to jar.
>

if you're using a recent version of the plugin then it should also write the
manifest to target/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

(unless of course you've used the manifestLocation setting to write it to a
different location)


> So the question is: can I somehow start bundle plugin standalone (at my
> runtime) to generate manifest from the specified pom?
>
> I understand that I can use bnd at runtime, but I would like to avoid that
> since all my OSGi meta is already in pom, so using bundle plugin would be a
> better choice here.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> --
> Dmitry Skavish
>

-- 
Cheers, Stuart