In Karaf's feature.xml, is it possible to add a repo?

Question

I am wanting to have the equivalent of this karaf command:

feature:add-repo mvn:org.apache.cxf.karaf/apache-cxf/3.3.1/xml/features

The bigger picture is that I want to be able to have a clean karaf install, copy a .kar file to the deploy folder, and have it download and install all of the features defined in feature.xml.

Currently, I have a feature.xml that lists the required features, but cxf is not in the pre-configured repos. For my testing, I have added the repo to org.apache.karaf.features.cfg.

I tried using the <library> element, but that doesn't appear to do this.

(My work is based on the karaf-jpa-example.)

thanks

Answer 1

If I got what you are trying to do, this should do the trick:

<features name="${project.artifactId}-${project.version}"
    xmlns="http://karaf.apache.org/xmlns/features/v1.4.0">

    <repository>mvn:org.apache.cxf.karaf/apache-cxf/3.3.1/xml/features</repository>

    <feature name="your-feature" version="${project.version}">
        ...
    </feature>

See the CXF Karaf feature project for a rich set of examples.