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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+    <!--
+
+        Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+        contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+        this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+        The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+        (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+        the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+           http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+        Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+        distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+        WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+        See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+        limitations under the License.
+    -->
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+      <groupId>org.apache.felix.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+      <artifactId>tooling</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <groupId>org.apache.felix.karaf.tooling</groupId>
+    <artifactId>org.apache.felix.karaf.tooling.testing</artifactId>
+    <packaging>bundle</packaging>
+    <version>1.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>Apache Felix Karaf :: Testing environment</name>
+
+    <description>
+      A bundle to help using Pax-Exam and Karaf.
+    </description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <appendedResourcesDirectory>${basedir}/../../etc/appended-resources</appendedResourcesDirectory>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- Pax EXAM -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.exam</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pax-exam</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.exam</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pax-exam-junit</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.exam</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pax-exam-container-default</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.ops4j.pax.exam</groupId>
+            <artifactId>pax-exam-junit-extender-impl</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>junit</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+            <version>4.5</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>${pom.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
+                <includes>
+                    <include>**/*</include>
+                </includes>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+        <filters>
+            <filter>target/filter.txt</filter>
+        </filters>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>create-prop</id>
+                        <phase>initialize</phase>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <tasks>
+                                <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" classpathref="maven.plugin.classpath" />
+                                <property name="ant.regexp.regexpimpl" value="org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Jdk14RegexpRegexp" />
+                                <property name="mv" value="${project.version}" />
+                                <echo message="Maven version: ${mv}" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p1" input="${mv}" regexp="(\d+)(?:\.(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?)?(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9](.*))?" replace="\1" defaultValue="0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p2" input="${mv}" regexp="(\d+)(?:\.(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?)?(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9](.*))?" replace=".\2" defaultValue=".0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p3" input="${mv}" regexp="(\d+)(?:\.(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?)?(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9](.*))?" replace=".\3" defaultValue=".0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p4" input="${mv}" regexp="(\d+)(?:\.(\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?)?(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9](.*))?" replace=".\4" defaultValue="" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p1a" input="${ov.p1}" regexp="(.+)" replace="\1" defaultValue="0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p2a" input="${ov.p2}" regexp="(\..+)" replace="\1" defaultValue=".0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p3a" input="${ov.p3}" regexp="(\..+)" replace="\1" defaultValue=".0" />
+                                <propertyregex property="ov.p4a" input="${ov.p4}" regexp="(\..+)" replace="\1" defaultValue="" />
+                                <property name="ov" value="${ov.p1a}${ov.p2a}${ov.p3a}${ov.p4a}" />
+                                <echo message="OSGi version: ${ov}" />
+                                <mkdir dir="target" />
+                                <echo message="karaf.osgi.version = ${ov}" file="target/filter.txt" />
+                            </tasks>
+                        </configuration>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>run</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>copy-filtered</id>
+                        <!-- here the phase you need -->
+                        <phase>compile</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>copy-resources</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/classes/</outputDirectory>
+                            <resources>
+                                <resource>
+                                    <directory>../../assembly/src/main/filtered-resources/etc</directory>
+                                    <filtering>true</filtering>
+                                    <includes>
+                                        <include>config.properties</include>
+                                        <include>startup.properties</include>
+                                    </includes>
+                                </resource>
+                            </resources>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <!-- generate dependencies versions -->
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.tooling</groupId>
+                <artifactId>depends-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.1</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>generate-depends-file</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>generate-depends-file</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <instructions>
+                        <Bundle-SymbolicName>${pom.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
+                        <Export-Package>org.apache.felix.karaf.testing;version=${pom.version}</Export-Package>
+                        <Import-Package>
+                            !org.apache.felix.karaf.testing*,
+                            *
+                        </Import-Package>
+                        <Include-Resource>
+                            {maven-resources},
+                            org/apache/felix/karaf/testing/config.properties=target/classes/config.properties,
+                            org/apache/felix/karaf/testing/startup.properties=target/classes/startup.properties
+                        </Include-Resource>
+                        <_versionpolicy>${bnd.version.policy}</_versionpolicy>
+                    </instructions>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+</project>