Bundle Plugin for Maven

This plugin for Maven 2 is based on the BND tool from Peter Kriens. The way BND works is by treating your project as a big collection of classes (e.g., project code, dependencies, and the class path). The way you create a bundle with BND is to tell it the structure of the bundle's JAR file as a subset of the available classes. This plugin wraps BND to make it work specifically with the Maven 2 project structure and to provide it with reasonable default behavior for Maven 2 projects.

Simple Example

Rather than going straight to a detailed list of plugin features, we will first look at a simple example of how to use the plugin to give an immediate flavor. A detailed "how to" will follow.

Assume that we have a simple bundle project that has a pubic API package an several implementation packages, such as:

org.foo.myproject.api
org.foo.myproject.impl1
org.foo.myproject.impl2
...

If we also assume that we have a bundle activator in one of the implementation packages, then <plugins> section of the POM file would look like this:

<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>bundle-plugin</artifactId>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <configuration>
      <instructions>
        <Export-Package>org.foo.myproject.api</Export-Package>
        <Private-Package>!org.foo.myproject.api,org.foo.myproject.*</Private-Package>
      </instructions>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>
<plugins>

Features

Detailed "How To"