| Searching for documentation about launching the OSGi framework... [message #289460] |
Fri, 05 August 2005 10:27 |
 Marcel Offermans
Messages: 1
Registered: July 2009 |
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This discussion originated in the OSCAR-dev mailinglist, where Jeff posted
about the Eclipse OSGi framework. Tim Ellison then suggested me to ask in
this newsgroup.
> Hello Jeff,
> On Friday 05 August 2005 05:20, Jeff McAffer wrote:
> > Yes, you are looking in the wrong place. Equinox is an incubator
> > for new
> > runtime technology for he Eclipse Platform. Two years ago it was the
> > place that we started the Eclipse on OSGi work. As of Dec 2003 the OSGi
> > work "graduated" and was moved into the main Eclipse project. Phase
> > 2 of
> > Equinox then started about a year ago to investigate further OSGi
> > modularity changes (e.g., RFC70 and 79) among other things.
> > Sometime late
> > last year that code also graduated and was absorbed into the main code
> > stream. http://eclipse.org/osgi indicates the forums for OSGi-related
> > interaction at eclipse.org. Note that the vast majority of the
> > development interaction happens in Bugzilla in the Platform/Runtime
> > component.
> > Fact is fact. We have done poorly at highlighting OSGi and facilitating
> > community development. This characteristic was noted at the World
> > Congress last year yet we still were distracted with all the R4 work
> > etc.
> > As mentioned, the 3.2 plan calls for us to rectify the situation.
> We always test our OSGi applications both under OSCAR and Knopflerfish
> and since you posted so extensively on the Eclipse OSGi runtime, I
> decided to try that too (I did so when 3.0 was under development but
> could not find any good documentation back then). Unfortunately, I
> am having a difficult time finding documentation again. I've looked at
> the link you provided, I've tried searching the whole Eclipse site,
> I've tried searching the Eclipse 3.1 help files, but I cannot find
> any API documentation on the EclipseStarter class which I need to
> launch the framework. I want to configure it to start some bundles
> from code.
> Please take this as constructive criticism, because I do like to add a
> third framework to our testing environment, it's just that I'm having a
> hard time setting it up.
> Greetings, Marcel
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