Transitive dependencies on bundles?

Question

Hi,

when using bundle as the packaging of a maven artifact, I seem to lose all information about transitive dependencies. So if artifact A depends on artifact B and B is packaged as a bundle, A does not see the maven dependencies that B has. This leads to lots of issues with maven plugins used in A's POM that need this information (such as maven-dependency-plugin or maven-eclipse-plugin). The only workaround I have found is to embed the dependencies into the bundle (usign Embed-Dependencies in the configuration of the felix bundle plugin). I don't want to do that, however, I want to keep them in their own files. Is there another workaround?

Answer 1

The cause of this behaviour is a bug, which has already been fixed in the latest (as of now unreleased) version of the maven-bundle-plugin. So in case anyone here stumbles upon it, simply upgrade to the latest version of the plugin (either build it yourself or get it from the apache snapshot repository ) and the problem will go away.