Eclipse - how to make a Maven + OSGI project? - eclipse

Question

I am new to OSGI and Maven and trying to figure out how to make a maven-osgi project in Eclipse. I have followed the tutorials and im able to make a maven project and also an OSGI project but I cant make a project that holds both of them.
As I understand the most important part of the OSGI project is manifest.mf. In my OSGI project I have this:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: Osgi
Bundle-SymbolicName: osgi
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0.qualifier
Bundle-Activator: osgi.Activator
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Import-Package: org.osgi.framework;version="1.3.0"
And the most importand part of an maven project is its pom.xml. In my maven project i have this:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.videobet.test</groupId>
<artifactId>quick</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>quick</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Now to combine these two I tried to make a maven project first and then edit the pom.xml so it would add the dependencies of an OSGI project and make the manifest.mf. For that I tried to add something like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifestFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>bundle-manifest</id>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>manifest</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
But I was unsuccessful. First of all I got an error like this:
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin:2.4.0:manifest (execution: bundle-manifest, phase: process-classes)
and even if i could resolve that im not sure if that would work. I also found different plugins like tycho that should help with the task but i dont really want to use them. I want to keep things as standard as possible and do things myself so i would eventually understand what im doing :)
Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

There is a other way to create Bundles with Maven have a look on Maven Tycho.
If you want work and deploy with Eclipse Environment then you can also use this Tutorial:
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseTycho/article.html
This is the Manifest first approach.
With Maven Tycho you can create your own P2 Repository (and also a ZIP file) for your different Applications to Import in other Eclipse RCP Environments.

Answer 2

There is a video that helps getting started to make an application with Eclipse+Maven+OSGi at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNH6JVmAcIQ&t=432s
The video starts with a fresh Eclipse and an empty maven project, so if you do the same steps, it should work for you.
Also, there is cookbook at http://cookbook.everit.org/
The goal of the cookbook to help people getting started with OSGi based on Maven (and optionally on Eclipse).
The cookbook has not been updated for a while as it was waiting for the eclipse plugin. As the Eclipse plugin works now, the cookbook will be rewritten soon.