Additional considerations on the new Features service
I want to give a bit more detailed explanations on some new stuff provided by the Karaf 4.x FeaturesService. Transitive closure The karaf-maven-plugin provides a new goal named verify . It's an enhanced version of the previous validate goal. This goal helps ensuring that all features are transitively closed with respect to their requirements. This means that all the requirements for a given feature can be fulfilled without relying on already installed bundles or features. This new goal actually uses the OSGi resolver to ensure that, so that it ensures your features can be deployed everywhere, without additional requirements. Viable deployments One of the new features I mentioned in my previous post is that the new Features service ensures that the features requirements are fully available. When installing new features, this is usually not much of a problem, as we usually only add new bundles. However, when uninstalling a feature, things ca...