Hacking on Fabric8 Gateway

I'm currently adding a mbean to the Fabric8 gateway and one of the things I learned about are SRC annotations. These annotations are developed by the Apache Felix Project and they allow resource injection.

Something else I learned is that fabric8 reads its libraries straight from maven, and caches it in your local .m2 maven repository. So in development all you need to do is enable watching your repo using

Fabric8:karaf@root> fabric:watch *

Then when building your jar using 'mvn install' it will automatically be picked up by karaf without needing to restart the fabric8 server.