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

We do something similar to what you are describing. For example, we have an internal version of Apache QPid. It comes as 6 jars (client, core, common, backports, etc) which you would rarely use individually. We have one POM with BND which takes all the jars, and makes one uber-osgi-jar from them.

Steps:

1. Declare your dependencies (we have the jars, so we declared them as system deps.)
2. Import build plugin maven-bundle-plugin (2.1.0)
3. Set correct instructions for export, private and import packages
4. Execution of 'wrap' goal at 'package' phase