Currently I'm working with osgi and karaf.
My problem is the no "osgi ready" dependencies , which means a jar that is not ready to be deployed as a bundle into karaf for example.
I tried two solutions in order to deal with this kind of problems :
I tried to to use "Embed-Dependency" which will include the jar
dependency with the project... I don't think this could be a solution
because when I try to embed the jar , it will ask me to include other
jars that the first jar depend on , and so on ..
I tried to convert the no "osgi ready" jars into bundles using bnd tool or from "Plug-in from Existing JAR Archive" from eclipse project. And this led to the same result , each jar will call another jar that it depend on it..
I am not sure if I'm doing it the wrong way or what is the problem exactly. Any tips how to deal with no osgi ready dependencies ?
The simplest way to start is to use the wrap: protocol to auto create a jar. Behind the scenes it uses bnd to create a bundle on the fly. Simply prepend wrap: to the mvn url of the jar.
When you try to install the jar using bundle:install -s wrap:mvn:... karaf will tell you which imported packages are missing. Install jars that provide these packages in the same way. The pom of the jar can give you a hint what is missing.
This can mean to install lots of jars if your initial jars has lots of dependencies.
Once you have a list of jars that are installable together you can either create a feature using wrap protocol or you can make bundles from the individual at build time.
In any case you should take a look are the servicemix bundles. It provides OSGi ready bundles for many libraries.