Title: Repository Generator Tool
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## Repository Generation Tool##


It is a command line tool to generate a repository xml for a list of bundles. The instruction is as follows.


 1. Obtain the tool <Br/>
a) Build the tool from Aries trunk. <br/>
 The easiest way to obtain the tool is to download the aries trunk, navigate
to the  '*application->application-tooling-repository-generator*', and then run *mvn install*, copy all jars from the the target directory. <br/><br/>

 2. Execute the command line tool<br/>
>*java -jar org.apache.aries.application.tooling.repository.generator-xxx.jar [repository xml location] url1 [url2...]*
   
Note: The text under the [] is optional. If [repository xml loaction] is absent, the repository.xml file will be generated under the current directory. 

The xxx is the maven version of bundle org.apache.aries.application.tooling.repository.generator, e.g. 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT. <br/>
The file: protocol - url can be a file or a directory, all valid bundles under that directory or subdirectory will be included in the repository xml (no need to list every single jar).<br/><br/>
Following is an example of generating a repository xml for all the bundles under the directory of  c:\temp\test\jars recursively and a bundle located under http://aaa.com/public/Aries/obr/test.b1/test.b1_1.0.0.jar. 
The repository xml is saved under c:\temp\test with the file name of repo.xml.
>*java -jar org.apache.aries.application.tooling.repository.generator-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar c:\temp\test\repo.xml file:///C:/temp/test/jars http://aaa.com/public/Aries/obr/test.b1/test.b1_1.0.0.jar*