public void generateMetaData() throws Exception {

        File dir = File.createTempFile("meta", "");

        dir.delete();

        dir.mkdir();

        generateBundle(File.createTempFile("bundle", ".jar", dir), "bundle.symbolicname.1", "1.0.0");

        generateBundle(File.createTempFile("bundle", ".jar", dir), "bundle.symbolicname.2", "1.0.0");

        generateBundle(File.createTempFile("bundle", ".jar", dir), "bundle.symbolicname.3", "1.0.0");

        MetadataGenerator meta = new BIndexMetadataGenerator();

        meta.generateMetadata(dir);

        File index = new File(dir, "repository.xml");

        assert index.exists() : "No repository index was generated";

        assert index.length() > 0 : "Repository index can not be size 0";

        int count = 0;

        String line;

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(index));

        while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {

            if (line.contains("<resource")) {

                count++;

            }

        }

        in.close();

        assert count == 3 : "Expected 3 resources in the repository index, found " + count + ".";

    }