How to deploy a karaf feature from a local maven repository?

maven karaf
leftbit picture leftbit · Sep 29, 2015 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I've created by first project for karaf (4.0.1). So far I've got the following:

  • an application bundle built with the maven-bundle-plugin. There are going to be more...
  • a karaf feature created with the karaf-maven-plugin.
  • a karaf-assembly created with the same plugin

So I'm ready to deliver to the customer - but I'm stuck over the development process. This question answered almost all my remaining questions save one:

After having built my project by running maven install I think I should be able to to get my feature running on a local karaf instance using something like the command feature:install.

I can install my application bundle from local maven by using bundle:install but then I'm down to managing dependencies myself.

Really can't figure out while bundle:install works against my local maven repository and feature:install doesn't.

Answer

leftbit picture leftbit · Sep 29, 2015

Found the soloution here. I knew I'd need feature:repo-add - but the name of this command and the official documentation sent me thinking in entirely the wrong direction.

This command does not add a (maven) repository, but adds the location of a feature in the maven repository chain (so I'm thinking the old name addUrl was probably easier to understand).

Anyway - using feature:repo-add mvn:<groupId>/<artifactId>/<version>/xml/features works.

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