I was looking at the PAX tools on OPS4J for example: this one and I thought I'd found a nice way to:

• Specify an artifact
• Create an assembled jar (jar that contains all dependencies) from that jar and it's transitive dependencies
• Wrap it with BND to create an OSGi bundle

It turns out, that I was wrong - it doesn't appear that the PAX stuff does this. (RTFM, right? :) )

But this got me wondering: is there something out there that does what I'm asking?

I've thought maybe I could do this by creating a simple POM and using the maven-bundle-plugin but this seems like it might be a bit cumbersome for what I'm asking.

NOTE: I get that embedding and assembling jar's is not really "the OSGi way" - so I wouldn't do this unless I really felt it useful. For example - Spring.

Thanks in advance.