OSGiWrapper

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Not all artifacts in a Maven repository are packaged as OSGi bundles. Yet, some systems (like for example the Bck2Brwsr ahead-of-time compiler) require JAR to contain OSGi meta-data. Luckily there is a simple way to turn any JAR into OSGi bundle by creating a simple Maven project. Here is the sample pom.xml: 

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
    <groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
    <artifactId>jar-id</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>bundle</packaging> <!-- we want to produce an OSGi bundle -->
 
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>
 
    <dependencies>
        <!-- specify the dependency you want to wrap as OSGi bundle -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.netbeans.external</groupId>
            <artifactId>nb-javac-api</artifactId>
            <version>RELEASE80</version>
            <!-- we need the dependency only during compilation -->
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
 
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.7</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <instructions>
                        <!-- export the packages that should be accessible -->
                        <Export-Package>javax.*</Export-Package>
                        <!-- list other packages that should be included in your bundle -->
                        <Private-Package>com.sun.tools.*</Private-Package>
                    </instructions>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

And that is all! After building the project, you'll get an OSGi bundle that contains all the classes from the specified dependency found in exported and private packages.

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