Plugins

Plugins are objects that can extend the functionality of bnd. They are called from inside bnd when a certain action should take place. For example, bnd uses a repository and plugins provide the actual repository implementations. Or for example, the SpringComponent analyzes the Spring files and adds references found in that XML to the imports.

A plugin is defined as:

PLUGIN ::= FQN ( ';' \<directive\|attribute\> )*

The following directive is defined for all plugin:

path: A path to the jar file that contains the plugin. The directory/jar at that location is placed on your classpath for that plugin.

bnd current supports the following plugin types:

Plugin Name	Summary
Ant Workspace Plugin	Ensures that when a new project is created it also has a build.xml for an ant build
Blueprint Plugin	Analyzes JARs for blueprint files so that any class references are added to the imports
Eclipse Plugin	Will add .project and .classpath files to newly created projects
FileRepo Plugin	Provides a bnd repository stored on the local file system
Git Workspace Plugin	Ensures that certain directories have a gitignore
Gradle Workspace Plugin	Provides the proper setup for a project when it is used in gradle
Java Persistence Architecture Plugin	Analyses JPA persistence.xml files and adds any discovered class to the imported packages.
Maven Bnd Repository Plugin	A plugin to use and release to Maven repositories
Bnd Pom Repository	A plugin to use a Maven POM as a repository
Signer Plugin	Provides the capability to sign files
Spring Plugin	Analyzes spring files and adds any discovered classes to the imported packages.
URL Basic Authentication Plugin	Provides basic authentication to the bnd's URL Connector handling
URL bnd Authentication Plugin	Provides bnd authentication to the bnd's URL Connector handling
URL HTTPS Verification Plugin	Verfifies that an HTTPS connection can be trusted
Repository Wrapper Plugin	A plugin that provides an OSGi Capability Repository on top of bnd repositories