How to deal with transitive dependencies when osgiying a third party library with Maven Bundlor

Question

I want to use hibernate 4 in my osgi project, therefore I need to make hibernate 4 and its dependencies osgi plugins so that they are available in osgi runtime. I am using maven bundlor to do this. Because hibernate depends on several other libraries, some of which have transitive dependencies as well. Is there a way to let maven automatically finds all hibernate 4's dependencies and make all available in osgi runtime?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Check the pax library to wrap the jars from the command line. Or if you store your artifacts in a Nexus repository, take a look at this bundle-maker plugin: it generates the bundles on the fly if they don't exist already when a dependency has a <classifier>osgi</classifier>. I use the second approach and although buggy when configuring, it does the job

As a third option, create poms that will use maven-bundle-plugin to wrap the jars. I use this approach when i need to customize the BND directives to exclude imports or change exports
The parent wrapper pom I generated from the pax-maven-plugin and each wrapped jar inherits from this pom

They all use BND internally btw

Answer 2

Why not use the bundles available on Maven Central? This link provides a list of all hibernate bundles. You'll notice that hibernate-core version 4.0.1.Final is available with the following maven dependency XML:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.1.Final</version>
</dependency>