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UI for importing bundles

Project project netigso embedds Felix OSGi container to enable the use of OSGi bundles in NetBeans. Currently to use bundles in the project you can either create new ones using a Wizard, or use an ANT task to convert them into bundles. This creates the xml files to register them as autoload modules to the system. Afterwards the user needs to change the xml manually to change their type to regular, if the Activator should be invoked. To make the import more comfortable a wizard or UI for importing existing bundles would be beneficial. The purpose of this page is to discuss such a UI.

Usecase:

Ability to import a set of modules/bundles into a suite as libraries even if they are not packaged correctly as a NetBeans cluster.

Scenario:

User opens Suites customizer, goes to Libraries node and

• a) chooses Add Cluster...
• b) chooses Import Cluster...

and selects root directory that shall be imported. Systems scans the modules inside and presents a table where the user can change their mode from autoload to eager or regular, or even exclude some modules. Then the user can finish the import by generating necessary files (config/Modules) and the cluster is imported.

Ascii Art:

TBD