Provide a Junit5 Extension to start an OSGi-Connect-Framework as part of the test without any need for special setup about osgi-test HOT 4 CLOSED

I like this idea. And we can extend it in the future so that it can still use a bndrun file to setup the framework. I know here you are banking on the connect model, but I wouldn't preclude using a real framework.

I don't need/want any special resolving as I can manage a small set of test-pugins and I don't like to afford the extra time required for resolving

I don't really agree with that statement since resolving is probably the most important test you need to perform on an OSGi bundle but it's not a blocker for the idea of testing from surefire which I've been meaning to work on for ages, so thanks for taking the lead here 👍

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Thanks @rotty3000 for the feedback andthe support, just want to make clear this obviously should not replace any resolving using BND, that will still be possible and maybe a bnd(run)-file would be an input also for a connect setup.

Also I don't want to say that a resolver is not important, but found for a (unit) test-setup it is often enough (especially if the project has a very limited OSGi scope) to simply have a small set of bundles (like 2 or 3) to have a rather closed-scoped test-context and much more manageable (you get what you declare, not more not less) and faster (than calculating this on each run) but still complete enough.

I'll prepare a PR for an initial implementation, and as you said we can easily build / enhance on top of it later on!

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Jena is another usecase that recently dropped OSGi support as it become too cumbersome to maintain tests in a non-OSGi environment:

• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-2165
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/20h0djofj3h3dwtm728mcclv2zply9jt
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-2343

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As there are sadly no progress here I have now created a separate project:

https://github.com/laeubisoft/osgi-test-framework

let me know if there is any interest to migrate the code here to a more official place...

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