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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.

. Obtain the tool + a) Build the tool from Aries trunk.
+  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.
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. Execute the command line tool +
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_java -jar org.apache.aries.application.tooling.repository.generator-xxx.jar [repository xml location] url1 [url2...]_
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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.
+ 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).
+  + 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.

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_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_
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