Jeff McAffer wrote:
I assume here that you are NOT using PDE in eclipse right?
Yes that's right
That is, from
the Eclipse perspective you are just developing Java code in Java
projects. It also seems that you are using maven to do the builds. If
this is correct, you should end up with a set of Maven created JARs
wherever Maven put them.
True I also use eclipse:eclipse goal to create the Eclipse project, from
the POM root after the Clement's tips
From there all you should have to do is create a
Java Launch Configuration and run. Of course if you change the code in
the workspace then you have to run Maven again and get new JARs generated.
That's what I want to avoid when I'm coding...
Not knowing Felix code at all but based on our Equinox experience I
suspect the problem with Felix not picking up your new code is because
Felix copies the JARs when you install the bundles. I recall that Richard
added the ability to intsall bundles by reference but don't know the
details (I assume it works somewhat like the support in Equinox). Perhaps
you could use that for installing your bundles? Note thta you may still
have refresh problems when changing manifest information or anything else
the Felix (or installed bundles) cache.
I don't know what is changed inside the core of Felix, but at the time
of Oscar I was able to lunch it as standard Java Application and the
debug the code and also change code during at run-time with Eclipse
BTW, in case people don't understand, this is exactly the sort of stuff
that PDE is designed to take care of for you. It does the classpath
management, package visibility, building, cache management and framework
launching. Developers don't have to mess with classpaths, building, ...
They just code and run. It would be interesting to see how these
facilities could be brought to bear on Felix. For example, since there is
no standard way of launching frameworks, PDE currently only launches
Equinox. Perhaps someone in the this community would be interested in
contributing support for launching Felix?
I think that will be nice, but I hope that can be done even with
standard Eclipse with only Java Perspective
Jeff
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07/14/2006 08:22 AM
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Re: Running Felix within Eclipse
Yes I had osgi.core in my classpath due to project dependencies of the
project org.apache.felix.main to org.osgi.core so to get it working
had to:
- go to run configuration
- go to classpath
- ensure that felix.jar is there( if you followed the instruction of
Clement should be here) otherwise add it
- move it up so that felix.jar become the first line under User Entries
Now is working back ^_^
I was happy too early... :-S
Right now, I'm able to run Felix within Eclipse, but when I update the
source code of my bundle and then I start Felix, Felix do not notice the
difference(Felix continues to use the old binary code).
So I end with a binary that is not synched with the
sources and also
without the update that I have made to it.
Any idea?
Stefano "Kismet" Lenzi
