Last night I tried to create new spring-osgi-bundle-archetype.
At first I found out that 1.2.1 was provided with Spring 2.5.x. After creation I tried to compile an empty project. The process ended with error that log4j.osgi could not been found.
My question is: "Is there some Maven archetype which provides access to Spring 3.2.4, which seems to be latest version with OSGI support?"
I read that Spring DM become a Gemini Blueprint, but can't find any examples how I can combine them together.
Spring DM moved and is now Gemini Blueprint: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/rt.gemini.blueprint Spring DM Server became Eclipse Virgo.
From the reference: https://www.eclipse.org/gemini/blueprint/documentation/reference/1.0.2.RELEASE/html/eclipse-migration.html
In late 2009, as a member of the Gemini project proposal, SpringSource contributed Spring Dynamic Modules (also known as Spring OSGi) project to the Eclipse Foundation. Spring DM v2 code base has been moved to Eclipse.org along with its issue tracker and forum. The project became dual licensed under Apache License and EPL. While the name has changed, the code and its functionality remained the same. Existing Spring DM applications can be easily migrated to Eclipse Gemini Blueprint as mentioned in the migration guide. While the project name has changed (to Eclipse Gemini Blueprint) and significant efforts have been made to reflect this in the project documentation and resources, there might be places that we have missed; if you find any, please report them to us.
AFAIK there is no existing archetype, but creating a maven project for DM is not that complicated. The more complicated thing would be the whole new environment you are working with.
I would recommend you the "greenpages example" which is very useful if you are new to osgi/blueprint: https://www.eclipse.org/virgo/documentation/greenpages-documentation-2.4.0.RELEASE/docs/htmlsingle/greenpages-guide.html