Open niport opened 1 year ago
Karaf features can not be converted to eclipse-features per-se as they contain a lot of additional information that can be expressed as an eclipse-feature. Beside that, they technically can reference URL-Handlers that Eclipse do not understand (most notable wrap
protocol).
Also one need to decide how they should be added, e.g. using an URL, should file local features be supported, what about referenced features and so on.
So I think this will be a lot of effort to have a generic support in PDE, but as feature.xml
are often deployed as maven artifacts one might want to add support to the m2e-target to support transforming such a feature.xml
into a set of bundles, this can work to some degree quite smoothly and m2e can also create a (new) pde-feature that includes bundles of a location.
It might be useful to allow to add karaf feature support in target platform definition file. Two main reasons:
The imported Karaf feature maybe can then be converted on the fly in an Eclipse feature, as it is already possible with maven artifacts.