How to bundle third party libraries or bundles

[VeenaVikraman]

Hi All

        Is it possible to bundle a third party bundle along with our project bundle through MAVEN? We have faced issues with this many times. Most of the time what i do is to directly install the third party bundle to Felix console and add the dependency to my POM. I am looking for a better approach than this in which everything goes in one shot (bundled in my project )as and when I install my package.

TIA

Veena

[Nupur_Jain · Accepted solution]

Hi Veena,

There is a way where you can just make the third party bundle part of the project bundle.

Suppose you have a third party bundle called 'thirdparty.jar'. Follow the steps :

1. Add dependency to the pom.xml

          <dependency>

               <groupId>com.thirdparty</groupId>

               <artifactId>my-bundle</artifactId>

               <version>1.0.0</version>

               <scope>system</scope>

               <systemPath>${project.basedir}/../repo/thirdparty.jar</systemPath>

          </dependency>

     if you have the bundle in your system , you can simply give the path to that bundle using the scope 'system'. Here, the folder 'repo' is besides the bundle folder in the project structure.

2. In your maven bundle plugin configuration in pom.xml, add the jar to  the embed-dependency option like that:

          <plugin>

               <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>

               <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>

               <version>2.3.7</version>

               <configuration>

                    <instructions>

                         <Embed-Dependency>*;scope=system</Embed-Dependency>

                    </instructions>

               </configuration>

          </plugin>

3. Build the maven project

4. Go to the target folder where you built bundle/jar is present, extract the jar, you will notice that the thirdparty jar is embedded in the bundle jar. I have attached the screenshot for your reference that shows the content of the extracted bundle containing the thirdparty jar.

[VeenaVikraman]

I will try this out and let you know if this worked for me. Thanks for a quick turnaround

[smacdonald2008]

We have this covered here:

HOW CAN I WORK WITH CUSTOM JARS THAT ARE NOT IN THE MAVEN REPOSITORY

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[VeenaVikraman]

Thanks Scott .

[VeenaVikraman]

Thanks Nupur It worked ...

[Nupur_Jain]

Glad it helped

[AK_TeAK]

Hi @Nupur_Jain, you mentioned ${project.basedir}/../repo/thirdparty.jar 

Here, the folder 'repo' is besides the bundle folder in the project structure

Where do I need to place the thirdpary jar? Should I create repo folder under core? This repo folder also should be committed in codebase?

Could you please clarify. Thanks in advance

[aanchal-sikka]

Sharing a blog which explains how to use Third-party bundles when:

• Hosted in restricted Maven repo
• Local repo (i.e. when maven repositories cannot be used)

https://techrevel.blog/2023/09/27/managing-third-party-dependencies-in-aem/

It also covers the configs needed for deployment via Cloud manager