| <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 1. Introduction to Bundlor</title><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.0" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Bundlor User Guide"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Bundlor User Guide"><link rel="prev" href="pr02.html" title="License"><link rel="next" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. Getting Bundlor"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="pr02.html">Prev</a> </td><th align="center" width="60%"> </th><td align="right" width="20%"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 1. Introduction to Bundlor"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="introduction"></a>Chapter 1. Introduction to Bundlor</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch01.html#introduction.about">About Bundlor</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section" title="About Bundlor"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="introduction.about"></a>About Bundlor</h2></div></div></div><p> | |
| 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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