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Subject: ivy (2.3) and osgi
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:13:59 -0800
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From: "Richard Mauri" <rmauri@ariba.com>
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Greetings, we are investigating alternatives to building osgi bundles
(and resolving/retrieving bundles for ease of copying to
virgo-tomcat/repository/usr) in an "ivy-first" approach.

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I found the following docs which encourage me and I'd love to get
started with this and help if need be.

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According to http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/osgi.html

So with a standard ivy.xml, you can express some dependency on some OSGi
bundle and every of their trasitive dependencies will be resolved. You
can also declare in your ivy.xml some OSGi dependency, like a
Require-Bundle, an Import-Package or an Import-Service, miming an OSGi
MANIFEST.MF.

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According to
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/osgi/standard-osgi.html

In oder to produce OSGi metadata of suffient quality and to avoid
maintaining them manually, the bnd <http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd>  tool
will be used. The approach taken is then an "Ivy file first" approach.
The dependencies will be specified in the ivy.xml file, the MANIFEST.MF
being generated from the computed classpath.

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Then, on the other hand I see this support for manifest-first docs:

According to
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/osgi/osgi-mapping.html

there is early experimental work to map osgi manifest first to generated
ivy.xml

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Also http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/use/convertmanifest.html

since 2.3 Convert a MANIFEST.MF into an ivy.ml file

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Sigh.. no mention of any sort of genbnd or genmanifest ant tasks

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Can someone clarify encourage me and shed a timeline for if/when this
might be able to be used?

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Can I getstarted now? Do I have to build ltest from src? Also the
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/osgi/standard-osgi.html
quick-setup link to download the bnd file seems broken (no content)=20

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Thanks,
Richard

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