Problem

When trying to package or install a project using the maven-bundle-plugin, an error message as the following is given:

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Cannot find lifecycle mapping for packaging: 'bundle'.
Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: org.apache.maven.lifecycle.mapping.LifecycleMappingbundle.

Solution

I could resolved the problem by including the element <extensions>true</extensions> to the plugin definition for the maven-bundle-plugin.

<plugin>
                                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                                <extensions>true</extensions>
                                <configuration>
                                        <instructions>
                                                <Bundle-SymbolicName>${pom.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
                                                <Bundle-Version>${pom.version}</Bundle-Version>
                                                <Embed-Dependency>${module.embeddedDependencies}
                                                </Embed-Dependency>
                                                <Embed-Directory>target/dependency</Embed-Directory>
                                                <Import-Package>${module.importedPackages}</Import-Package>
                                                <Export-Package>${module.exportedPackages}</Export-Package>
                                        </instructions>
                                </configuration>
                        </plugin>

Resources

Probblem with maven-bundle-plugin (“Cannot find lifecycle mapping for packaging: ‘bundle”) (Felix Mailing list)