Re: Super-Newbie - How to add a plugin to a Hello World app

2014-06-27 Thread Achim Nierbeck
I'd say, you might want to read about OSGi and Services first. After that you'll come up with that HelloWorld sample very quickly yourself :D That's the short answer, the long one: First of all have a Interface say HelloWorldServiceInterface, just keep that interface in bundle one Now Create a

Re: Super-Newbie - How to add a plugin to a Hello World app

2014-06-27 Thread Bob Futrelle
A classic Hello World runs and exits. Better tiny example might be a button that updates a label each time it's pressed. It would run indefinitely. A plugin might add to the label text. - Bob On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Bob Futrelle bob.futre...@gmail.com wrote: Say, I write a tiny

Re: Super-Newbie - How to add a plugin to a Hello World app

2014-06-27 Thread David Bosschaert
Hi Bob, Another place where you can look for practical examples of little OSGi bundles developed using a variety of build tools is here: http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/ToolChains No graphical stuff with buttons. Most hello world examples are text-only, but there are various blogs etc on the web that

Super-Newbie - How to add a plugin to a Hello World app

2014-06-26 Thread Bob Futrelle
Say, I write a tiny Hello World app - a few lines. What might be a simple example of a plugin that I could add to it? Though this is a super-simple question, I can't find any discussion that describes how I might go about doing this. I figure that any technology should be capable of describing