Make HiveMQ Client OSGi compliant

[alexweirig]

Hello,

could you please make the client library OSGi compliant be generating a full MANIFEST.MF file with the correct IMPORT and EXPORT packages statements.

This would allow users to deploy the client into an OSGi container (Felix, Equinox, Karaf ...) without any further actions required.

maven has the required plugins to generate valid OSGi bundles. The best and most reliable solution would probably be to use the bnd(tools) plugin for maven.

https://enroute.osgi.org/about/115-bnd-plugins.html

Many thanks in advance

[siepkes]

If you have experience with OSGi it might be best to create a PR for it. I don't know if the maintainers of this project have OSGi experience but OSGi can be a bit intimidating if you have never worked with it before.

[dobermai]

OSGi is not something we‘re using ourselves and we are not aware of current library users with OSGi. We‘re open for contributions, though.

[J-N-K]

I'm currently checking if we can use the HiveMQ client in openHAB and we would greatly benefit from an OSGi package.
One question (not very experienced with netty): Do we need excactly 4.1.32.Final or can we use everything from 4.1 to 4.2?