[SLING-10956] Create assembly for feature launcher

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Feature Model Launcher 1.1.26
• Fix Version/s: Feature Model Launcher 1.1.28
• Component/s: Feature Model
• Assignee: Karl Pauls
• Reporter: Karl Pauls
• Created: 01/Dec/21 16:18
• Updated: 19/Nov/22 03:40
• Resolved: 02/Dec/21 14:22

Description

The launcher can be extended with service loader based class path extenders. That makes it tricky to have it inline its dependencies (especially conditionally) as the extenders might have dependencies as well.

I think we should provide the launcher as an assembly so that we can have the launcher jar only contain the launcher classes and provide a zip file with everything included.

That way, one can drop in extensions (and their dependencies) into the libs dir and manage the dependencies if required.

Issue Links

• causes: SLING-11158 The starter's "Start Sling" instructions don't work with feature launcher v1.1.28 or later
• relates to: SLING-11408 Make sure that feature launcher contains only necessary runtime dependencies
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #33