Re: [osgi-dev] Packaging OSGi for (desktop) Windows
Hi Chris, With bndtools you can also export your complete OSGi application to a single .jar file. From thereon you can create an installer like any regular Java application. Regards, Tim On 04/13/2015 10:11 PM, chris.g...@kiffer.be wrote: Hi all, I'm developing a Windows taskbar app which revolves around a Java library, so I am using OSGi to build it. This part is going just fine, but once the app is working I have to find a way to distribute it so that it can be installed by highly qualified medical personnel, i.e. complete nincompoops so far as IT is concerned (of course they view us in the same way). In principle this seems pretty do-able (the framework is the main app, and it needs some bundles to be around just like other apps need fonts and images etc.), I just wondered if anyone out there has already been through this and can point to some tools which are helpful, or blind alleys not to get stuck in? Regards, Chris ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev -- Tim Verbelen Department of Information Technology Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN) Ghent University - iMinds Gaston Crommenlaan 8 (Bus 201), B-9050 Gent, Belgium T: +32 9 33 14940 ; T Secr: +32 9 33 14900 F: +32 9 33 14899 E: tim.verbe...@intec.ugent.be W : www.ibcn.intec.UGent.be ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
Re: [osgi-dev] Packaging OSGi for (desktop) Windows
Hi Tim, As in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17742961/how-to-write-a-an-osgi-command-line-application? I should have known - if there is a possible use for it, bnd can do it! Indeed this reduces my problem to that of creating an installer for a Java application, for which there are plenty of solutions available. Bedankt hoor! Regards Chris Hi Chris, With bndtools you can also export your complete OSGi application to a single .jar file. From thereon you can create an installer like any regular Java application. Regards, Tim On 04/13/2015 10:11 PM, chris.g...@kiffer.be wrote: Hi all, I'm developing a Windows taskbar app which revolves around a Java library, so I am using OSGi to build it. This part is going just fine, but once the app is working I have to find a way to distribute it so that it can be installed by highly qualified medical personnel, i.e. complete nincompoops so far as IT is concerned (of course they view us in the same way). In principle this seems pretty do-able (the framework is the main app, and it needs some bundles to be around just like other apps need fonts and images etc.), I just wondered if anyone out there has already been through this and can point to some tools which are helpful, or blind alleys not to get stuck in? Regards, Chris ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev -- Tim Verbelen Department of Information Technology Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN) Ghent University - iMinds Gaston Crommenlaan 8 (Bus 201), B-9050 Gent, Belgium T: +32 9 33 14940 ; T Secr: +32 9 33 14900 F: +32 9 33 14899 E: tim.verbe...@intec.ugent.be W : www.ibcn.intec.UGent.be ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
[osgi-dev] Packaging OSGi for (desktop) Windows
Hi all, I'm developing a Windows taskbar app which revolves around a Java library, so I am using OSGi to build it. This part is going just fine, but once the app is working I have to find a way to distribute it so that it can be installed by highly qualified medical personnel, i.e. complete nincompoops so far as IT is concerned (of course they view us in the same way). In principle this seems pretty do-able (the framework is the main app, and it needs some bundles to be around just like other apps need fonts and images etc.), I just wondered if anyone out there has already been through this and can point to some tools which are helpful, or blind alleys not to get stuck in? Regards, Chris ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
Re: [osgi-dev] Packaging OSGi for (desktop) Windows
Hi, I am only a user of jitsi but what I see it is pretty easy to install and use it: https://jitsi.org/ It is a skype-like chat, video conference and screen sharing app that is based on Apache Felix. You might want to analyze the source of that project. Regards, Balazs On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:11 PM, chris.g...@kiffer.be wrote: Hi all, I'm developing a Windows taskbar app which revolves around a Java library, so I am using OSGi to build it. This part is going just fine, but once the app is working I have to find a way to distribute it so that it can be installed by highly qualified medical personnel, i.e. complete nincompoops so far as IT is concerned (of course they view us in the same way). In principle this seems pretty do-able (the framework is the main app, and it needs some bundles to be around just like other apps need fonts and images etc.), I just wondered if anyone out there has already been through this and can point to some tools which are helpful, or blind alleys not to get stuck in? Regards, Chris ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
Re: [osgi-dev] Packaging OSGi for (desktop) Windows
Indeed, looks like the client is an OSGi app. Certainly worth a look, thanks for the tip! Hi, I am only a user of jitsi but what I see it is pretty easy to install and use it: https://jitsi.org/ It is a skype-like chat, video conference and screen sharing app that is based on Apache Felix. You might want to analyze the source of that project. Regards, Balazs On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:11 PM, chris.g...@kiffer.be wrote: Hi all, I'm developing a Windows taskbar app which revolves around a Java library, so I am using OSGi to build it. This part is going just fine, but once the app is working I have to find a way to distribute it so that it can be installed by highly qualified medical personnel, i.e. complete nincompoops so far as IT is concerned (of course they view us in the same way). In principle this seems pretty do-able (the framework is the main app, and it needs some bundles to be around just like other apps need fonts and images etc.), I just wondered if anyone out there has already been through this and can point to some tools which are helpful, or blind alleys not to get stuck in? Regards, Chris ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev ___ OSGi Developer Mail List osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
