[FELIX-397] Interoperability with Eclipse Equinox and PDE

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: Maven Bundle Plugin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Eugene Kuleshov
• Created: 18/Oct/07 04:45
• Updated: 30/Jan/08 10:39
• Resolved: 18/Oct/07 06:00

Description

Maven bundle plugin can nicely collect all Maven dependencies, generate bundle manifest and create jar package. However it is not very useful if you need to run that bundle in self-hosted mode for debugging. Eclipse provides nice development and debugging environment for OSGi bundles, but bundles created by this plugin can't be easily used there.

One possible option would be to provide a separate goal that would create folder structure compatible with Eclipse PDE. Basically place generated manifest file into the ${basedir}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and copy jars according to the Bundle-ClassPath attribute. Then such project could be imported into Eclipse and used with PDE.