Re: [pde-dev] Target platform manifest problem.

[Don Laidlaw <Don.Laidlaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [pde-dev] Target platform manifest problem.

In this case, the bundle in question was the com.springsource.org.joda.time v1.6.0 bundle from the SpringSource Bundle Repository.

The only problem with the bundle is that the Bundle-SymbolicName header was spelled Bundle-Symbolicname.

I used the most excellent bnd tool from Peter Kriens at http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd  to simply repackage the bundle with the more common manifest header in place, no other changes. Most jars can be packaged easily with this tool. Others require some thought on what should be imported/exported. But in all cases, the tool makes it simple.

When you combine the bnd tool with maven via the maven-bundle-plugin, then you can automate the downloading of the jar to be wrapped, and wrap it and deploy it to a maven repo all in one step. I usually just set up a simple project with a pom file only for its contents, and do it that way. I can provide an example for that particular jar if you like.

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Don Laidlaw | Sr. Research Engineer | Infor | office: +1 902-576-5185 | mobile: +1 902-401-6771 | don.laidlaw@xxxxxxxxx

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From: Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:49:03 -0400
To: "Eclipse PDE general developers list." <pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pde-dev] Target platform manifest problem.

On a side note, how are you creating your third party bundles?

Cheers,

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