I'm currently investigating in the field of dev environment for OSGi bundles. My goal is to find a way to develop, test and debug with ease the bundles I'll be coding. Besides, I have some "cultural" requirements. <ul> <li>I want to be able to use java continuous integration servers (typically, Hudson)</li> <li>As a consequence of that first requirement, I want to have a repeatable, one-click build process. My typical tool for that is maven.</li> <li>And finally, being long-term Eclipse user, and having the m2eclipse at hand to merge my eclipse env with my maven one, I obviously want to be able to test and debug with that IDE.</li> </ul> So far, here are the infos I know <ul> <li>I can use (and have already tested) maven-bundle-plugin, maven-ipojo-plugin which both offer clean packaging facilities</li> <li>I have tested maven pax (and eclipse pax) and am not really satisfied with both : maven pax generates a very heavy project, where adding dependencies is very error-prone (the maven pax:import-bundle command line, with all its arguments, is a hell per se)</li> <li>I have taken a look at Karaf, which seems to have some nice direct maven provisionning, but I don't know how to integrate it with my Eclipse, besides using the traditionnal JPDA bridge. However, it seems to be more production-oriented than dev-oriented, and as such may require heavy configuration to fit my need (although the reading of its user manual doesn't revedal that).</li> </ul> Have you got any ideas ? Some maven/eclipse plugins ? EDIT : my goal is not to provide eclipse plugins or features, it is in fact to create independant application, that may be ultimately packaged as webapp (in a similar fashion to, as an example, sling). Is Tycho able to do that ? It doesn't seems so, as its packaging types page only lists eclipse specific packages types (but I may be wrong)

I have not tested it, but when it comes to maven/eclipse plugin managing OSGi bundles, Tycho seems to be the official project. See Create a new OSGi bundle in Eclipse Of course, Tycho is part of the Maven development stack: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UcR5E.png" alt="Ticho Maven"> <hr> Other options are mentioned in the blog entry Me, OSGi and Maven" mentioned by the OP Riduidel in the comments: <ul> <li> BND and Bundlor </li> <li> pax and pax-construct </li> <li>Sigil</li> </ul>

Looking for a good dev environment for OSGi bundles [closed]

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I'm currently investigating in the field of dev environment for OSGi bundles.

My goal is to find a way to develop, test and debug with ease the bundles I'll be coding. Besides, I have some "cultural" requirements.

I want to be able to use java continuous integration servers (typically, Hudson)
As a consequence of that first requirement, I want to have a repeatable, one-click build process. My typical tool for that is maven.
And finally, being long-term Eclipse user, and having the m2eclipse at hand to merge my eclipse env with my maven one, I obviously want to be able to test and debug with that IDE.

So far, here are the infos I know

I can use (and have already tested) maven-bundle-plugin, maven-ipojo-plugin which both offer clean packaging facilities
I have tested maven pax (and eclipse pax) and am not really satisfied with both : maven pax generates a very heavy project, where adding dependencies is very error-prone (the maven pax:import-bundle command line, with all its arguments, is a hell per se)
I have taken a look at Karaf, which seems to have some nice direct maven provisionning, but I don't know how to integrate it with my Eclipse, besides using the traditionnal JPDA bridge. However, it seems to be more production-oriented than dev-oriented, and as such may require heavy configuration to fit my need (although the reading of its user manual doesn't revedal that).

Have you got any ideas ? Some maven/eclipse plugins ?

EDIT : my goal is not to provide eclipse plugins or features, it is in fact to create independant application, that may be ultimately packaged as webapp (in a similar fashion to, as an example, sling). Is Tycho able to do that ? It doesn't seems so, as its packaging types page only lists eclipse specific packages types (but I may be wrong)

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asked Apr 14 '10 05:04

Riduidel

1 Answers

I have not tested it, but when it comes to maven/eclipse plugin managing OSGi bundles, Tycho seems to be the official project.

See Create a new OSGi bundle in Eclipse

Of course, Tycho is part of the Maven development stack:

Ticho Maven

Other options are mentioned in the blog entry Me, OSGi and Maven" mentioned by the OP Riduidel in the comments:

BND and Bundlor
pax and pax-construct
Sigil

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answered Sep 19 '22 00:09

VonC

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