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Equinox p2 for an arbitrary OSGi application? [message #489859]

Tue, 06 October 2009 09:35

Grigory Ptashko

Messages: 5
Registered: October 2009

Junior Member

Hello.

I am designing a software system which I think I am going to implement on an OSGi platform. It is going to be a software system running on self-service terminals. OSGi idea suits well for my demands of managing devices and end-user related functionality. I think I am going to use Equinox as the OSGi implementation. So I came up with a question that I cannot find answer to: is it possible to setup the Equinox p2 to manage updates to my system on distributed terminals? I'd like to update lots of terminals from one place and keep track of which was updated and which was not updated and which terminal is running what version of the software system. I understand that Equinox p2 can be used to manage updates for an Eclipse RCP application but what about an arbitrary application running on the Equinox platform?

Thank you.

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Re: Equinox p2 for an arbitrary OSGi application? [message #490236 is a reply to message #489859]

Thu, 08 October 2009 01:21

Ben Vitale

Messages: 247
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I'm reasonably confident the answer to your question is yes.

This tutorial may provide more answers:

http://eclipsesource.com/en/downloads/presentations/remote-p rovisioning-with-p2/

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Re: Equinox p2 for an arbitrary OSGi application? [message #490362 is a reply to message #489859]

Thu, 08 October 2009 12:49

Simon Kaegi

Messages: 381
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Yes definitely.
For example, I'm working on managing equinox based server-side applications
at the moment.
-Simon

"Grigory Ptashko" <gptashko@cmmt.ru> wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> I am designing a software system which I think I am going to implement on
> an OSGi platform. It is going to be a software system running on
> self-service terminals. OSGi idea suits well for my demands of managing
> devices and end-user related functionality. I think I am going to use
> Equinox as the OSGi implementation. So I came up with a question that I
> cannot find answer to: is it possible to setup the Equinox p2 to manage
> updates to my system on distributed terminals? I'd like to update lots of
> terminals from one place and keep track of which was updated and which was
> not updated and which terminal is running what version of the software
> system. I understand that Equinox p2 can be used to manage updates for an
> Eclipse RCP application but what about an arbitrary application running on
> the Equinox platform?
>
> Thank you.
>

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