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>2.2.10</version>
<executions>
<!-- add execution definitions here -->
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>