Tempting as I just switched my IDE to Eclipse BUT the gui is already done in Swing.
If it was an SWT gui would/could one run it in felix? Conversely are there many people running Swing GUIs in equinox? BTW - looking forward to the 3.2 Eclipse release especially for the new equinox features. John On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:41, Jeff McAffer wrote: > Why not just run it on Equinox? > > Having said that, this would be an interesting exercise to try. There are > a number of things that are outside the scope of the OSGi spec (e.g., the > application model and various services that are supplied by the Equinox > framework) that likely differ between Felix and Equinox. > > Jeff > > > > > > > "Yalcin Akdogan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 01/10/2006 03:57 PM > Please respond to > felix-dev > > > To > <[email protected]> > cc > > Subject > Re: Gui Support > > > > > > > Does anybody think about to use eRCP/eSWT with Felix? > > Yalcin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard S. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:18 PM > Subject: Re: Gui Support > > > > John E. Conlon wrote: > >> Will be deploying a GUI application within felix and would like to > >> administer felix and it's bundles with a gui that I call from within > the > >> application. > >> > >> What is the current think for how this should be done in felix? Will > it > >> be similar (identical?) to the oscar's shellgui, tablelayout and plugin > >> approach? Can I just use those oscar bundles? > > > > You should be able to follow the exact same approach that you used with > > Oscar. You can use Oscar bundles directly, however, it is likely that > > their manifest ill have to be modified slightly to work with Felix. In > > particular, Felix is more strict when it comes to exposing classes on > > the class path, so the manifest of some Oscar bundles will need to be > > modified to import the packages they use off the class path (e.g., > > javax.swing). > > > > I will try to move the bundles that you mention over to Felix soon, but > > in the meantime, just edit the manifest...if you have any difficulty, > > let me know. > > > > -> richard > > >
