At the moment, most libraries are not released as OSGi bundles which means they cannot be used inside the OSGi space unless they are embedded in other bundles. Though there are tools that make the bundling process easy, it is desirable to have the artifacts prepacked so they can be used immediately for development.
SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository (in short BRITS) addresses this problem by providing “a collection of open source libraries commonly used for developing enterprise Java applications with the Spring Framework” (taken from the Repository FAQ). With the availability of the Bundle Repository, the Spring-DM old repository (see below) has been deprecated and it is being used until migrating completely to BRITS. It is highly recommended that users migrate as well to BRITS as it provides significantly more libraries and it is intended to be a user-facing infrastructure component.
Unfortunately, not all Spring-DM dependencies are available in BIRTS and thus Spring-DM still needs to maintain some of its own
dedicated Maven repository available
at http://maven.springframework.org/osgi.
![[Warning]](images/admons/warning.png) | Warning |
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| The repository is provided as-is without any kind of support. The repository structure/content can (and will) change until it becomes stable. Before using Spring-DM repository make sure the needed artifact are not available in BRITS. These being said, we hope you find it useful and we'd like to know if there are improvement that can be made to it. |
Currently, all the artifacts published in the repository are marked as SNAPSHOTs meaning that, in time, their
content can change. This allows clients to download possible manifest updates made to the libraries. We foresee that, as the library usage
increases, several popular items will have the SNAPSHOT marker remove.
Additionally, to differentiate the OSGi-enabled artifacts from the original ones, all libraries are placed under
org.springframework.osgi group and their names contains a .osgi suffix.
So for example, an OSGi version of mx4j-3.0.2 jar is available in the Spring-DM OSGi repository under at:
org/springframework/osgi/mx4j.osgi/3.0.2-SNAPSHOT/mx4j.osgi-3.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
The repository is currently hosted at Amazon S3. To browse the repository structure, use a S3 compatible browser (such as this one) since a vanilla web browse will not be suitable.
The use the repository, simply add it ot the repositories group; since the repository
contains SNAPSHOT artifacts, make sure to mark it accordingly:
<repositories> <repository> <id>spring-osgified-artifacts</id> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> <name>Springframework Maven OSGified Artifacts Repository</name> <url>http://maven.springframework.org/osgi</url> </repository> </repositories>