Interested to know if anyone can point me to a hopefully automated solution to this problem.

Given any mavenized project that has dependencies, and assuming those dependencies are all OSGi-ready bundles, each with some of their own transitive dependencies, is there a way to get a PAR to pick up ALL of the dependencies at once and wrap them up such that I can deploy my whole app with its dependencies at once?

Put simply, I'm lazy, and don't want to have to copy bundles manually to the dm server repository folder, and especially don't want to force my development team to have to do this as well (tho I seem to recall we could configure dm server to point to a shared repo location). Whenever I update my POM to add a new dependency, I'd rather hot have ANOTHER step where I need to go grab that JAR and throw it somewhere else manually.

From what I can see, the Eclipse PAR management will only allow me to package projects I can point it to - and those projects' transitive dependencies are not pulled into the PAR.

If I use the maven PAR plugin, the same basic thing happens - per its documentation it will only include in the PAR those dependencies I explicitly refer to, it will not deal with transitive dependencies.

Am I missing something? Or do I need to bite the bullet and either do this manually (copying my dependencies somewhere or writing my own automation for this)?