Good way to “wrap” jars for OSGi with Maven

Question

I was looking at the PAX tools on OPS4J for example: this one and I thought I\'d found a nice way to:

• Specify an artifact
• Create an assembled jar (jar tha

Answer 1

You have to maintain a local POM to get this done. There's not a utility that will take in a library/jar and spit out the appropriate OSGi MANIFEST in a jar. ServiceMix, along with Spring, have a lot of things already bundled up that you can use as examples. Two such examples I suggest looking at are:

• commons-io - simple library wrapper
• OpenJPA - wraps the main jar and brings in the dependencies with it