Using the features-maven-plugin
The features-maven-plugin provides several goals to help you create and validate features XML descriptors as well as leverage your features to create a custom Karaf distribution.
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| features:add-features-to-repo | Copies all the bundles required for a given set of features into a directory (e.g. for creating your own Karaf-based distribution) |
| features:generate-features-file | Deprecated - use features:generate-features-xml instead |
| features:generate-features-xml | Generates a features XML descriptor for a set of bundles |
| features:validate | Validate a features XML descriptor by checking if all the required imports can be matched to exports |
| {{ | features:create-kar |
Configure the features-maven-plugin
In order to use the features-maven-plugin, you have to define the plugin in your project's pom.xml file:
<project> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.karaf.tooling</groupId> <artifactId>features-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> <executions> <!-- add execution definitions here --> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>