DotCMS Extended Bundle Activator that can help deploy jsps and assets (as well as other files) into the dotCMS repo.

ExampleActivator,java

package com.aquent.osgi;

import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

public class AquentActivator extends ExtendedBundleActivator {
	
	@Override
    public void start ( BundleContext ctx ) throws Exception {

    	// Initializing services
    	initializeServices(ctx);
    	
    	// Add the resources
    	deployJSPs(ctx);
    	deployAssets(ctx);
    	
    }
    
    @Override
    public void stop ( BundleContext ctx ) throws Exception {
      // Remove the Resources
    	undeployJSPs(ctx);
    	undeployAssets(ctx);
    }

}

ExtendedBundleActivator.java

package com.aquent.osgi;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Enumeration;

import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

import com.dotmarketing.osgi.GenericBundleActivator;
import com.dotmarketing.util.Config;
import com.dotmarketing.util.Logger;
import com.dotmarketing.util.UtilMethods;

public abstract class ExtendedBundleActivator extends GenericBundleActivator {

	protected void deployJSPs(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		String destFolder = Config.CONTEXT.getRealPath(File.separator);
		moveResources(context, "jsp", destFolder);
	}

	protected void deployAssets(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		String assetsDir;
		if (UtilMethods.isSet(Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_REAL_PATH"))) {
			assetsDir = Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_REAL_PATH");
		} else {
			assetsDir = Config.CONTEXT.getRealPath(File.separator + Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_PATH")) + File.separator;
		}

		moveResources(context, "assets", assetsDir);
	}

	protected void moveResources ( BundleContext context, String sourceFolder, String destFolder ) throws Exception {
		//Find all the resources under that folder
		Enumeration<URL> entries = context.getBundle().findEntries( sourceFolder, "*.*", true );
		while ( entries.hasMoreElements() ) {

			URL entryUrl = entries.nextElement();
			String entryPath = entryUrl.getPath();
			String fileName = entryPath.substring( entryPath.lastIndexOf('/')+1, entryPath.length() );

			String resourceFilePath = destFolder + fileName;
			File resourceFile = new File( resourceFilePath );
			if ( !resourceFile.exists() ) {
				Logger.info(this, "Deploying file: "+resourceFilePath);

				InputStream in = null;
				OutputStream out = null;
				try {
					if ( !resourceFile.getParentFile().exists() ) {
						resourceFile.getParentFile().mkdirs();
					}
					resourceFile.createNewFile();

					in = entryUrl.openStream();
					out = new FileOutputStream( resourceFile );

					byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
					int length;
					while ( (length = in.read( buffer )) > 0 ) {
						out.write( buffer, 0, length );
					}

				} finally {
					if ( in != null ) {
						in.close();
					}
					if ( out != null ) {
						out.flush();
						out.close();
					}
				}
			} else {
				Logger.warn(this, "File Already Exists, not deploying: "+resourceFilePath);
			}
		}
	}

	protected void undeployJSPs(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		String destFolder = Config.CONTEXT.getRealPath(File.separator);
		removeResources(context, "jsp", destFolder);
	}

	protected void undeployAssets(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		String assetsDir;
		if (UtilMethods.isSet(Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_REAL_PATH"))) {
			assetsDir = Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_REAL_PATH");
		} else {
			assetsDir = Config.CONTEXT.getRealPath(File.separator + Config.getStringProperty("ASSET_PATH")) + File.separator;
		}

		removeResources(context, "assets", assetsDir);
	}

	protected void removeResources( BundleContext context, String sourceFolder, String destFolder ) throws Exception {
		//Find all the resources under that folder
		Enumeration<URL> entries = context.getBundle().findEntries( sourceFolder, "*.*", true );
		while ( entries.hasMoreElements() ) {

			URL entryUrl = entries.nextElement();
			String entryPath = entryUrl.getPath();
			String fileName = entryPath.substring( entryPath.lastIndexOf('/')+1, entryPath.length() );
			String resourceFilePath = destFolder + fileName;

			File resourceFile = new File( resourceFilePath );
			if ( resourceFile.exists() ) {
				Logger.info(this, "Removing file: "+resourceFilePath);
				resourceFile.delete();
			} else {
				Logger.warn(this, "File Does not Exists, not removing: "+resourceFilePath);
			}
		}

	}
}

Chris, can you add the entire plugin package with the Manifest? I'm going to implement this, this weekend so I can override JSP's using an OSGi plugin, I think other would like this as well