Handling 3rd party bundles

[s1101v]

Hello Community - I have a requirement to manage and install more than 30+ 3rd party OSGi bundles in AEM. If the count is very less, I would have added in the existing AEM project and install the bundle it via package installation. Since the count is more, can someone tell me if there is any better way of handling the bundles via AEM project? TIA.

[SureshDhulipudi]

anaging a large number of OSGi bundles in AEM can be done using the Apache Sling Feature Model. The Feature Model allows you to define and manage sets of OSGi bundles as features

{
"id": "com.mycompany.myproject:myfeature:1.0.0",
"bundles": [
{
"id": "com.test:mybundle1:1.0.0",
"start-order": 1
},
{
"id": "com.test:mybundle:2.0.0",
"start-order": 2
},
// Other bundles...
]
// Other resources...
}

https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-feature/

[s1101v]

Thanks for your reply. Can you tell me if you implemented this feature to deploy the custom jars? if so, can you share some sample project for the same?

[Shiv_Prakash_Patel · Accepted solution]

Hi @s1101v , You can use Sling feature model custom aggregate to include custom bundles.

• https://blogs.perficient.com/2020/10/28/exploring-the-sling-feature-model-part-3-custom-aggregates/

If you want mode details on Sling Feature Model, You can checkout below articles.

• https://blogs.perficient.com/2020/07/27/exploring-the-sling-feature-model-part-1/
• https://blogs.perficient.com/2020/08/03/exploring-the-sling-feature-model-part-2-composite-nodestore...
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_JPYX3_oQ

Regards,

Shiv

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