Hi, The problem you describe seems to be a perfect fit for Apache Ivy ( http://ant.apache.org/ivy/). Since you are in an OSGi context (as far as I understand), you might be particularly interested in checking this part of the documentation : http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/osgi.html. But, be aware that this support is still experimental and I don't know how it handles cyclic dependencies.
Hope that helps, Mathieu 2013/6/25 Margs E. <ana.m.g.estre...@accenture.com> > Hi Everyone, > I am new to this forum, and in advanced ant development as well.So I'm > pretty I am in dire need of tutotial.First of all, I was asked to creat an > ant script that would need to check all the plug-ins, features and even the > categories to ensure cyclic dependency is being closely monitored.I come up > to an idea to have the manifest files of the plug-ins be checked, from one > to another and so on. Like, this particular plug-in's manifest hold its > dependent bundle names which the script would check these dependent bundles > each for the name of that particular plug-in: > < > h4>PLUGIN A--> MANIFEST -->Required-bundle A ---> MANIFEST.mf --> > > Required-bundle B ---> MANIFEST.mf > > Required-bundle C---> MANIFEST.mf > and if plug-in A's name is found on any of the manifest checked, this will > post a cyclic dependency failure. if not, this will just successfully > terminate.However there are much complex scenarios of cyclic dependency > like; > --A depends on B, B on C, and C on A or--Dependent of A Dependes on > dependent of B, while B depends on A. > And I am out of idea since we have so many plug-ins to check, and different > feature groupings.I just need some advise. Thanks in advance! > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ant.1045680.n5.nabble.com/Creating-Ant-script-to-check-Cyclic-Dependency-tp5714244.html > Sent from the Ant - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
