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http://www.nabble.com/idea%3A-automatic-component-repo-td17979177.html

(Note: Some of these may be duplicates of java or maven meta info... we could omit dups)

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META-INF/components.xml:

<components>

  <component name="component1" 
             version="0.9.0" 
             search-keywords="slider,ui,java">

    <description>
      This text describes the component.
    </description>

    <publisher name="my components" 
               site="

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http://mycomponents.com/slider

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" 
               email="support@mycomponents.com"/>

    <legal>
      <copyright>
          Copyright 2009-2010, John Q. Public. All Rights Reserved.
      </copyright>
      <license name="Apache 2.0">
          Full license text goes here so it travels with the JAR.
      </license>
    </legal>

    <requirements>
      <library name="wicket" version="1.3"/>
      <library name="YUI" version="4.0"/>
    </requirements>

    <resources>
      <source-code url="component1-sources.jar"/>
      <screenshots url="jar:META-INF/component1/screenshots"/>
      <demo class="com.mycomponents.demo.DemoPanel"/>
    </resources>

  </component>

  <component name="component2"/>

</components>

META-INF/component1/screenshots/1.jpg
META-INF/component1/screenshots/2.jpg

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What else?

  • Javascript-Libraries=YUI 4.0,DOJO 1.0

Should this be XML for better structure instead of using META-INF?

OSGi:
Some of the properties above would be better represented by OSGi (if you still want to use that)

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reference: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2008/jw-03-osgi1.html?page=2

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Wicket component jars should be fully self-describing, so i think wicket meta information has to be independent of any external technology such as maven or osgi. – Jonathan Locke