I've been looking into ditching my karaf features file and moving to fab:install as from what i understand, this seems a lot easier to manage.

From my example, i believe i need to change common, gateway and the api from being bundles, to jars and everything should be fine.

I tried to install the api using fab:install (i'd changed the pom to be a jar) and this worked, but took along time to complete (i walked away from my pc it was taking that long). Are there any settings which can speed up/help fab:install?

I tried changing: org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.localRepository=file:C:/Users/gareth.healy/.m2/repository

But this broke the esb and when i restarted it (binned the data dir) it started to complain about a lot of things and hadnt installed most of the standard bundles.

Is there also a setting to print out what fab:install is doing?, i.e.: a "-X" for maven

Cheers.