How to build desktop applications with Apache Karaf/OSGi?

Question

Well im into building OSGi application for a while, but i can't really find some tutorials which show the way to build Desktop Application ( in any languages ) with OSGi/Karaf.

I want to use karaf because it can then wrap Felix/Equinox. Most of Tutorials i found are about Enteprise Application(WEB). So is there any tutorials, which talk about building desktop application based on OSGi/Karaf?

Answer 1

Here is an example of a GUI application project that uses Apache karaf:

https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/igb-fx

Using karaf to run a gui-based desktop application decreases development time. A developer makes a change to a bundle, builds the bundle, and then uses karaf shell commands to reload just that one bundle into the running application. There is no need to restart the entire application to view the effects of the new code. This is why were are using it.

We are using OSGi because we want greater modularity in the code base and because we want to support dynamically loaded "Apps" developed by 3rd party developers who write against our genome browser API.