When managing and transforming the many bundles included in the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository, it can become difficult to remember which packages are boot delegated, which are exported from the system bundle, and which are from other bundles in your system. This information is important because you typically do not want to import packages into your own application that are boot delegated, you want to import system bundle packages at version 0, and you want to define custom imports for all the rest of the bundles. Trying to keep track of which packages are in each of these categories can be error prone; similarly, defining template entries for them in your manifest template can be time-consuming and tedious.

To solve this problem, you can specify that Bundlor take an Section 6.1, “Overview of OSGI profiles” as input and automatically add template entries for boot delegated packages and system bundles. These import entries would ignore boot-delegated packages and set the version of system bundles to version="0". This feature is available for all Bundlor front ends: command-line, ANT and Maven.