[ecf-dev] maven repos for Karaf installation/use

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

ECF has been producing maven repos of it's bundles for some time [1].   
However, I am getting more requests for having the ECF Karaf features 
[2] made available via maven repos (rather than http urls).  The main 
problem with this is not ECF bundles, but rather there are 4 equinox 
bundles that we depend upon (see [3]), and so far, Equinox has not made 
those bundles available via a Maven repository.   There is talk on the 
Equinox mailing list about making their bundles available via a maven 
repository, and possibly contributing to Maven central, but so far it 
hasn't been done.

What do people with more knowledge of Maven, tycho, etc think we should 
do to aid the use of ECF remote services on Karaf?   For example, s it 
possible (e.g with Tycho) to create a maven repo that has these non-ECF 
bundles in it (temporarily?).

Thanks,

Scott

[1] http://build.ecf-project.org/maven/
[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf
[3] http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.10.0/site.p2/karaf-features.xml