A QuickLook at OSGi Bundles (Jar Files really)

Recently I have been working a lot with OSGi Bundles and often I’d wish I could just quickly see the most important information of the bundle at a glance.

Now, being also an OS X User and appreciating the QuickLook functionality of the system, I just had to dive into the problem and resolve it with a small plugin.

Fortunately, it was easier to accomplish than I first thought.

Here the standard QL result:



After a little bit of playing around, even for the Cover Flow (needs a large size to be useful, still trying to scale the text):




So here is the JarMeta QuickLook Plugin, if you'd like to try it out (install in ~/Library/QuickLook):
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Note 1:

“THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROVIDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.”

Note 2:
An OSGi bundle is really just a JAR File. All this plugin does is for all jar files, it will try to extract the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF using the systems unzip and display it.

Note 3:
I have build this on Snow Leopard (10.6) and I must suppose that it only works for this OS version.