How to setup bundle development environment (Eclipse Equinox Maven)

Question

Hi, I'am trying to setup eclipse environment to develop bundles (With maven-bundle-plugin-bnd) and run & debug that bundles equinox from eclipse

I created sample bundles with org.apache.felix maven-bundle-plugin and can install and start that bundles from eclipse equinox,
but every time i need to run "install file:C:\path\bundle1.jar","install file:C:\path\bundle2.jar" which causes pain. i searched for run configuration but it only intalls and starts (plugin) projects in workspace not maven projects.

What i have done is create maven project and add dependencies(bundle1,bundle2 etc..) and added maven-dependency-plugin to copy all depended bundles in one folder (another problem is equinox use "_" delimeter to determine version of bundles but maven uses "-" as delimeter) if i do not strip version in standalone equinox application i need to give version of bundle in config.ini file but i dont want that, is this proper way to solve this problem?

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>copy-dependencies</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${bundleDirectory}</outputDirectory>
              <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
              <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
              <stripVersion>true</stripVersion>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

To sum up , i have bundles in folder, which is created with org.apache.felix maven-bundle-plugin , how can i run and debug them from eclipse?

Answer 1

I wouldn't say this is a "proper" solution, but it may work for you.

The antrun plugin can be used to modify the dependencies to replace the final hyphen with an underscore, so the dependency plugin doesn't need to strip the version.

My regex is rusty, but from a little testing the following configuration appears to apply the required name change to the files in the bundleDependency directory.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>copy-dependencies</id>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <outputDirectory>${bundleDirectory}</outputDirectory>
        <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
        <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.3</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <configuration>
        <tasks>
          <!-- move within same directory is preferred method for a rename-->
          <move todir="${bundleDirectory}">
            <fileset dir="${bundleDirectory}"/>
            <mapper type="regexp" from="([a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+)(-)([0-9\.]+.jar)" 
              to="\1_\3"/>
          </move>
        </tasks>
      </configuration>
      <goals>
        <goal>run</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>ant</groupId>
     <artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId>
     <version>1.6.5</version>
   </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>