h1. Developing OSGi components with m2e and EIK

Most of the examples and archetype present on the web use maven-bundle-plugins to create bundle. 
EIK is able to use these archetype through the help of M2E.

If m2e is not installed yet please download it from [m2e|http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases].

Using Karaf-bundle-archetype a simple projects called simpleBundle.

We need to instruct maven-bundle-plugin configuration like this:

* manifestLocation to META-INF
* unpackBundle to true

{noformat}
<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
	<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.3.7</version>
	<extensions>true</extensions>
	<configuration>
	<manifestLocation>META-INF</manifestLocation>
	<unpackBundle>true</unpackBundle>
	<instructions>
	<Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
	<Bundle-Version>${project.version}</Bundle-Version>
	<Bundle-Activator>org.apache.karaf.eik.manual.simpleBundle.Activator</Bundle-Activator>
	<Export-Package>
		org.apache.karaf.eik.manual.simpleBundle*;version=${project.version}
	</Export-Package>
	<Import-Package>
		*
	</Import-Package>
	</instructions>
	</configuration>
</plugin>
{noformat}


* Right click on project -> Maven -> Update Project...
* Right click on project -> RunAs -> Maven install


from Debug Configurations is possible to see simpleBundle

!/images/devcomponentwithm2e_1.png!

Run Eik and to verify the installed bundle were started type osgi:list

!/images/devcomponentwithm2e_2.png!