[pde-ui-dev] Felix and Eclipse PDE

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On a side note, the PDE team from Eclipse would like everyone to know that as of Eclipse 3.3M2 (http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3M2-200609220010/eclipse-news-M2.html) PDE supports pluggable OSGi frameworks (see the release notes). This allows other OSGi frameworks to be launched like Equinox is (also it allows for reusability of the launch configuration UIs and other things).

There is an OSGi framework extension point (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.pde.ui/schema/osgiFrameworks.exsd) that interested OSGi frameworks can extend.

Currently only Equinox is supported (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.pde.ui/src/org/eclipse/pde/ui/launcher/EquinoxLaunchConfiguration.java) but we would appreciate feedback from the Felix community if someone would like to create a Felix extension. We want to make sure this API is stable for Eclipse 3.3 and would love if the Felix community could help the evolution of this API.

If you have any questions using this API, please feel free to email the pde-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.

Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk
Eclipse Committer

Clement Escoffier <clement.escoffier@xxxxxxxxx>

Clement Escoffier <clement.escoffier@xxxxxxxxx>

	To:	felix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	cc:
	Subject:	Re: Work with Felix but how?!
	From:	Clement Escoffier <clement.escoffier@xxxxxxxxx> - Monday, October 16, 2006, 12:50 PM

Please respond to felix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello,

I migrate (endly) the tutorial : Felix Integration inside Eclipse on the 
Felix Wiki Page :
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FELIX/Felix+integration+inside+Eclipse

Regards,

Clement


Francesco Furfari a écrit :
> Hi all,
> Clement has written a tutorial about Felix integration inside eclipse, 
> see 
> http://plop-plop.net/ipojo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=37 
>
>
> I think it should be added to the Felix wiki.
>
>
> best,
>  francesco
>
>
>
> Simon Willnauer wrote:
>> Cheers guys!!
>>
>> I already build the sources thank you!
>> I will let you know about the integration of felix in GData.
>>
>>
>> best regards Simon
>>
>> On 10/6/06, Richard S. Hall <heavy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would also recommend the following:
>>>
>>>     * http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/building-felix.html
>>>     * http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/felix-usage.html
>>>
>>> The first tells you the steps necessary for building Felix since it is
>>> currently only accessible from SVN and the second is a reasonably
>>> up-to-date usage document.
>>>
>>> -> richard
>>>
>>> Pierre Parrend wrote:
>>> >  Hello Simon,
>>> >
>>> >  you can refer to the Oscar project, which is the project where Felix
>>> comes
>>> > from.
>>> >  you will find a general documentation here :
>>> > http://oscar.objectweb.org/
>>> > a 'get started' page here :
>>> > http://oscar.objectweb.org/usage.html
>>> > and a tutorial that introduces the main OSGi feature from a 
>>> developper's
>>> point
>>> > of view :
>>> > http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/tutorial/index.html
>>> >
>>> > on the main page, you will also find a list of project that have been
>>> build on
>>> > oscar, I assume that some of them have moved to Felix.
>>> >
>>> >  And, last, the main difference between Oscar and felix is that Oscar
>>> implements
>>> > OSGi Release 3, and Felix is almost ready to implement all mandatory
>>> OSGi
>>> > Release 4 features.
>>> >
>>> >  enjoy !
>>> >
>>> > Pierre
>>> >
>>> > Quoting Simon Willnauer <simonw@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> Hi there,
>>> >>
>>> >> I read a lot about felix and OSGi and I actually can not wait to use
>>> it. I'm
>>> >> planing to integrate the OSGi system into another apache project
>>> (Lucene
>>> >> GDataServer) but have no experience with it so far. I was looking 
>>> for
>>> some
>>> >> "Getting Started" or examples tutorials to get into the framework or
>>> how to
>>> >> integrate all the features OSGi / Felix offers. I got to the
>>> documentation
>>> >> part of the website and tried to read the Felix OSGi Tutorial (
>>> >> http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/felix-osgi-tutorial.html) and I had to
>>> login,
>>> >> so I registered and logged in but I got no permission to read it. I
>>> would
>>> >> love to read this part of the documentation, can anyone of you 
>>> tell me
>>> how
>>> >> ;).
>>> >> If any of you have some more documentation / tutorial hints for me I
>>> would
>>> >> really appreciate it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Are there any OpenSource projects around using Felix so far?
>>> >>
>>> >> best regards Simon
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>