Pax runner eclipse plugin updatesite

Question

I'm having difficulties setting up Pax Runner Eclipse plugin so I can run Felix inside Eclipse.

I followed the instructions on https://ops4j1.jira.com/wiki/display/paxrunner/Plugin+Installation but looks like the updatesite (http://www.ops4j.org/pax/eclipse/update/) is unavailable.

I downloaded pax-runner-assembly-1.8.5-jdk15.zip from the public maven repo in an attempt of manually installing the plugin but I think I have a wrong file.

Which files do I need to download and where I should copy those files to (Eclipse plugins folder?)?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell from the documentation, the Pax (Curser) Eclipse plugin and the Pax Runner are different tools with different purposes. The pax-runner-assembly download seems to be a maven plugin/dependency. Pax Runner is used for provisioning (downloading and managing bundles) while the eclipse plugin adds the option to use different OSGI frameworks in the Eclipse OSGI run configuration.

According to the eclipse marketplace, the plugin hasn't been updated since 2009. There is kind of poor communication about what projects ares still maintained and which of the downloads you actually need to run use the tools. I'd say the eclipse plugin is dead and you'll probably be better of searching for plugins that add support for the specific OSGI framework you want to run.