Major Description
Now that maven 3 has been released, I think it is important to get the features-maven-plugin to work under maven 3. The problem is that you normally use "mvn:" url's in the features-maven-plugin, e g:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId>
<artifactId>features-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-features-to-repo</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-features-to-repo</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>mvn:org.apache.karaf/apache-karaf/${karaf-version}/xml/features</descriptor>
</descriptors>
<features>
<feature>ssh</feature>
<feature>management</feature>
<feature>webconsole</feature>
</features>
<repository>${project.build.directory}/features-repo</repository>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
But the url handler for "mvn:" does not work under maven 3 due to changes in the classpath handling. An alternative must be developed. I've noticed on the ops4j mailing list that something called pax-url-aether is in the works. Maybe that's an option for features-maven-plugin?