Re: [eclipse-dev] osgi runtime, how to Alternate Runtimes

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eclipse 3.0 does not support people
supplying alternative runtimes.  The Equinox work on "alternatives
runtimes" was aimed at finding an alternative to the 2.1 runtime.
 We found and implemented OSGi as that alternative.  As such,
there are no API facilities for you to supply your own classloaders etc
to plugins.

Having said that, there have been several
threads on the Equinox newsgroup where people have talked about running
Eclipse in an app server and others using non-API techniques to supply
classloaders to plugins.  These may give you the information you are
looking for.

Jeff

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Hi,

sorry in case i sound a little bit nervous, since weeks i try to find out
how to use the new osgi runtime 
to implement a jmx based runtime so i can use eclipse RCP _inside_ an application
server to access ejbs 
in the same vm. I feel the osgi stuff was very hyped. 

All blog entries in the web say the same, the new osgi runtime is cool
but to less documented. 
Well i'm agree and since weeks there is still one line documentation "In
progress..."
Especially for alternate Runtime there is just nothing then the summaries.
;-o My questions in the 
mailing list or forum of equinox wasn't answered. As well i was reading
the code, but there are for 
example two IPlatformRunnable with different java doc and i found as well
comments like 

// TODO clarify the javadoc below.  Copy the signatures from Platform.
// talk to jeem about the best way to do the triplication

So the code reading confuse me a lot and i'm still haven't any idea how
to do my job.


So please please please is there someone that can give any hint what kind
of Interfaces i have to 
implement to realize an alternative eclipse runtime and how to assign the
classloader from my new 
runtime to a plugin? Has someone just a few lines that give me a starting
point or a documentation 
draft?

In case i couldn't find out how to implement a alternate runtime i have
to start using Swing next week, 
please save me before this pain! 

Thanks!
Stefan



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