Maven : OSGI, bundles and multi-modules projects

Question

I\'m currently developing an OSGi based application (using Equinox) by trying to mavenize a web tutorial I\'ve found on OSGi+Equinox. In this project, there are bundles dependin

Answer 1

I wrote a tool called auto-builder: http://code.google.com/p/auto-builder. It introspects PDE-based projects and generates Ant build files; it supports transitive closure over dependencies and all that jazz.

I posted a write-up: http://empty-set.net/?p=9. I wrote it because the Maven tools I played with, when integrated with PDE, didn’t “just work.” Basically, I wanted to do coding in PDE and have a Hudson-based CI without any fuss in between.

Generating Ant files is nice because it gives you all the benefits of a declarative build tool, but it leaves you with a procedural description of what it is doing.

I am looking for more PDE-based projects to test it on. There are a couple RFC-0112 Bundle repositories around, and I have some code for downloading dependencies. If anyone is interested, then I could integrate dependencies download with auto-builder.

Answer 2

Tycho is designed to handle these types of problems.

Answer 3

The answer is quite simple : I removed the already defined manifest, and used bnd entries in the bundle plugin instructions. That works !