Working with Maven, OSGi and Bndtools

Question

Today I was asked whether it is a good idea to use Maven in our current OSGi application. We used Bndtools and its great since it makes development as easy as possible. Bndtools

Answer 1

I think using Maven with OSGi projects works very well. You can use the Felix Maven BND plugin to make your life a lot easier. With this, maven can automatically generate OBR metadata in your local (or remote) maven repository. This lets you treat your maven repository as an OBR as well. It makes the workflow for OSGi projects the same as other projects, and everything is very seamless and fairly easy to use.

We use it at work, and Maven really makes things easier to use. For example, we use Maven to generate Eclipse project files, run automated builds on a CI server, and create OBR metadata.