[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Integrating plugin bundles in normal J

[tomhsu@xxxxxxxxx (Tom Hsu)]

Hi experts,

I have been trying to start an osgi application with another POJO main 
method for integration.

I used the following in the main method of a public static main method:
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      String[] launcherArgs = {
              "-configuration",
              "C:\\pathTto\\configuration",
              "-install",
              "C:\\pathToIntall",
              
"-DJavaAgentLogConfigFile=C:\\pathToLogConfig\\log4j-commandline.xml",
              "-application",
              "org.my.Application",
      };
      org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(launcherArgs);
  }
The above class can be found in startup.jar.

However, now my problem is how to return an result object from my App A. 
org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(launcherArgs) and 
org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(launcherArgs) does not have return 
type. If my app A which implements 
org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPlatformRunnable does return an result object in 
its public Object run(args) method, how do I retrieve it?

I tried cutting over to use EclipseStarter:
     BundleContext context = EclipseStarter.startup(launcherArgs, null);
      Object appResult = EclipseStarter.run(null);

However, I think I am not able to use the same configuration parameters as 
before:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2009-01-09 16:02:58.719
!MESSAGE Bundle org.eclipse.core.runtime@start not found.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2009-01-09 16:02:58.859
!MESSAGE C:\pathTo\plugins is not a valid plugins directory.

Any idea?

Regards,
Tom