OSGi seems to have an excellent benefit of having small deployable artifacts by not wrapping dozens of JAR dependencies into a lib directory. However, I can't find anything that tells me an easy, reliable way to deploy dependencies to a container. For instance, I have an application that uses CXF and several Spring subprojects. If I need to deploy this application to a new Glassfish server, what would be the best way to do so, ensuring that all dependencies get installed?
I'm using Maven, and it would seem that there could be some way to have a hook that looks at the META-INF/maven directory and pulls the dependency list from the pom.xml and goes and fetches the required libs (probably from a local repo). Is there a way to do that?
The Pax plugin sort of sounds like it's doing this, but it seems to be based around boostrapping a Felix container? Which is not what I want, I am dealing with an already running, remote container.
Is there any shot such a thing exists as command line tool as opposed to GUI as well?