Guide for creating a user feature that integrates a pre-existing library into CDI

[benjamin-confino]

I had a customer ask me for help with accomplishing this, and afterwords I created a guide based on what we did together to preserve this knowledge for the future.

The guide covers using maven to repackage an existing library as a liberty user feature, as well as making an integration layer that can expose upstream classes as CDI beans.

It can be found here: https://github.com/benjamin-confino/draft-guides-template

[gkwan-ibm]

Thank you @benjamin-confino for this contribution.

We will review it on next year Jan.

[yeekangc]

This is for extending Liberty with new custom features and in this case, a user feature that introduces APIs that Liberty doesn't provide "out of the box".

This may be in the same category of assets as the Liberty Deep Dive tutorial.

[gkwan-ibm]

hi @benjamin-confino

We suggest you to create a sample Github repo under OpenLiberty org and write up a blog for it. If having good feedback and traffic, we will write up a guide for this topic.