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

I wrote a maven archetype that will help you wrap a jar as an OSGI bundle.

Let's say you want to wrap commons-collections version 3.2.1

First get the archetype and install it

git clone git://github.com/HallwayTech/maven-wrap-jar-archetype.git 
cd maven-wrap-jar-archetype
maven install

Then use the archetype to start your project.

mvn archetype:create \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=com.hallwaytech.osgi \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=wrap-jar \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
  -DgroupId=commons-collections \
  -DartifactId=commons-collections \
  -Dversion=3.2.1

cd commons-collections

mvn install

To deploy to a Apache Sling inside of Felix run:

mvn install -Pdeploy