I'm using the shadow plugin in gradle build process to package an uber jar for my executable. However, this involves datanucleus which is OSGi structured. When I use shadowJar task in gradle, the plugin.xml is lost. Does the gradle shadow plugin has a way to deal with this type of dependencies? I have been searching around but haven't found anything useful other than manually merging things or moving away from shadow plugin.
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FYI "plugin.xml" is nothing to do with OSGi. It is a mechanism for providing a plugin system for applications, and was originally developed for Eclipse. DataNucleus use it since they support a flexible system allowing users to plug-in extra handling, but they have no dependency on Eclipse. OSGi only requires MANIFEST.MF IIRC (which isn't your problem here). – Neil Stockton Jul 11 '17 at 08:38
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Additional problem will be if you have multiple plugin.xml files in the Jars you are combining, because if they are relevant for you application they would need to get merged. – stempler Jul 12 '17 at 14:13