[fedora-java] Searching for Java classes in Fedora packages - java-deptools in Fedora Cloud

[Michael Šimáček]

On 2015-08-12 18:54, Roland Grunberg wrote:
>> java-deptools is a project that can extract class information from RPM
>> packages. It has been provided as a commandline tool and now I'm working
>> on bringing it online as a web service. The web service can search for
>> class names and tell you in which RPMs the classes exists in Fedora. It
>> is now available in Fedora Cloud at:
>> http://java-deptools.fedorainfracloud.org/
>>
>> Currently, it can only be used for searching for class names in Fedora
>> Rawhide, but there are plans for more. Please keep in mind that the
>> current instance is experimental and may not be reliable (the database
>> is currently regenerated manually). Ideas for features/contributions are
>> welcome.
>> Source repository is at: https://github.com/msimacek/java-deptools
>
> This is pretty cool, and would love to have something similar for OSGi
> metadata in Fedora. There's already capabilities for querying this kind
> of metadata directly from a filesystem and doing it from rpms shouldn't
> be too tricky.
>

Should be definitely possible. I also plan to query Maven metadata. But 
I'm not that familiar with OSGi, what kinds of information would you be 
interested in? Does it mean just storing and querying the manifests or 
should I use something more high-level?

Michael