<adrian.col...@springsource.com> wrote:
>  Some of you may have seen the recent announcement of the SpringSource
> Application Platform (if not, a good starting point is Rob Harrop's blog
> here:
> http://blog.springsource.com/main/2008/04/30/introducing-the-springso...).
> The platform uses Spring and Spring Dynamic Modules as the end-user
> programming model, and contains a lot of smarts to make that model work
> smoothly with existing enterprise libraries.

> Regardless of whether or not you choose to use the Platform, subscribers to
> this list will almost certainly be interested in the SpringSource Bundle
> Repository (http://www.springsource.com/repository). To support the
> development of enterprise applications with OSGi we've created a repository
> with nearly 300 of the most commonly used enterprise libraries when
> developing Spring applications. (Yes, this was a big and very resource
> intensive undertaking!) Every bundle in the repository has full OSGi
> manifests, and before any artefact gets into the repository it is verified
> in a running OSGi Service Platform to ensure it loads and resolves
> correctly.

> The repository meets the following criteria:
>     * Every jar file in the repository is a valid OSGi bundle. Any jar you
> download from the repository can be deployed as-is into an OSGi Service
> Platform. It can also be used as a regular jar file outside of OSGi.    *
> Every bundle and library has full version information associated with it.
> The package export information for a bundle contains version information,
> and the package import information for a bundle contains full version range
> compatibility information.    * The repository is transitively complete. The
> mandatory dependencies of any bundle are guaranteed to also be in the
> repository. Most of the optional dependencies of any bundle in the
> repository will also be present. The bundles listed in any library
> definition are guaranteed to be in the repository.    * The repository is
> self-consistent. Before any artefact is uploaded to the repository, we
> verify that it can be installed, resolved, and started in an OSGi Service
> Platform (using the same profile as the SpringSource Application Platform)
> alongside all of the other bundles in the repository.    * The repository
> can be used from Ivy and Maven based builds.

> There is an FAQ here for those who are interested in further details
> http://www.springsource.com/repository/app/faq

> Regards, Adrian.

> Adrian Colyer
> CTO, SpringSource
> http://www.springsource.com

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