[KARAF-4147] karaf-maven-plugin: Add description of configuration property "libraries"

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.0, 4.0.5
• Component/s: karaf
• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Jochen Kraushaar
• Created: 26/Nov/15 14:45
• Updated: 14/Sep/18 12:38
• Resolved: 31/Mar/16 18:02

Description

When I upgraded my Karaf 3.0.3 Assembly to Karaf 4.0.3, I had problems to install libraries to the lib/endorsed directory. After some digging through the code, I found the "libraries" configuration property, which does exactly what I was looking for. It took me even more time to figure out how it works.

It would be nice, if the description of this property is added to the http://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest/developers-guide/custom-distribution.html manual.

For those, who have the same problem an example: To install a PostgreSQL driver at lib/endorsed, add the following configuration entry at your karaf-maven-plugin definition:

<libraries>
    <library>mvn:org.postgresql/postgresql/9.3-1102-jdbc41;type:=endorsed</library>
</libraries>