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| With the increasing focus on OSGi in Enterprise Java, there has been increasing focus on creating OSGi | |
| bundles for deployment. | |
| When a development team is creating their own bundles, bundlor simplifies the creation and maintenance of | |
| the OSGi metadata of each bundle. | |
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| Bundlor also helps in the use of third-party enterprise libraries, many of which are not packaged as OSGi bundles. | |
| In this case, developers must add OSGi metadata to the library before use. | |
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| Bundlor helps in both these scenarios. It can be very hard for developers to keep track of the | |
| dependencies needed by a JAR file. Bundlor is a tool that automates the detection | |
| of dependencies and the creation of OSGi manifest directives for JARs after their creation. Bundlor takes as | |
| input a JAR and a template consisting of a superset of the standard OSGi manifest headers. Bundlor analyses | |
| the source code and support files contained in the JAR, applies the template to the results, and generates a | |
| manifest. | |
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| The use of Bundlor can take different forms, from an Apache ANT task and an Apache Maven plugin, to | |
| simple command line execution. | |
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