On 8/23/05, Jeff McAffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed some posts here on tooling to support bundle development. I > thought I would take the opportunity to point out that Eclipse has a > comprehensive suite of support for bundle development in the form of a > Plugin Development Environment (PDE)...
Hi, Jeff, Is there by any chance a tutorial (with pictures) on using Eclipse for straight-up OSGi bundle development? Something that expands on the plugin --> bundle mapping? Something for total beginners to both Eclipse and OSGi? In particular, something targeted to those of us wishing to create OSGi bundles for server-side components that won't be using any Eclipse UI/SWT, etc.? The 3.1 PDE Guide and the PDE screens don't make it clear what's OSGi and what's Eclipse, eg plugin.xml, Fragments, and Extension Points. I have an idea of what's OSGi and what's Eclipse, but I don't think most people do, and the mental mapping of plugin --> bundle breaks down at some point. I'd like to make sure I'm not relying on or generating anything that is not "pure" OSGi, since I'm working on purely server-side bundles and I'm sure that other developers at Apache have the fear that the IDE is automatically generating unnecessary artifacts behind the scenes. Perhaps a mode is in order for pure bundle development, with pure OSGi semantics. Does that make sense? Enrique
