Hi Christopher, I currently am not using SWT in any OSGi projects but have seen several SWT/OSGi apps in the past. I was easily able to get a JFace dialog to display via my own bundle. I used Eclipse to first create an equinox-based bundle that showed the dialog, then used PDE to strip away the Equinox/Eclipse stuff until I found that a SWT/JFace bundle requires these packages:
org.eclipse.jface.dialogs, org.eclipse.jface.window, org.eclipse.jface.resource, org.eclipse.swt.layout, org.eclipse.swt.graphics, org.eclipse.swt.widgets, org.osgi.framework I then let PDE launch resolve those into the bundles distributed with Eclipse 3.6 for Linux (x86): org.eclipse.core.commands_3.6.0.I20100512-1500.jar org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.6.0.v20100503.jar org.eclipse.jface_3.6.2.M20110210-1200.jar org.eclipse.osgi_3.6.2.R36x_v20110210.jar org.eclipse.swt_3.6.2.v3659c.jar org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86_3.6.2.v3659b.jar pt_1.0.0.201110240834.jar (my test bundle) I then used knapsack (my pet project) to quickly launch Felix with the above bundles and was able to see an SWT Shell and JFace dialog. This would probably be enough to get started and I imagine it would not be too difficult to strip out the org.eclipse.equinox.common, org.eclipse.osgi, and org.eclipse.core.commands bundles from JFace to lessen the dependencies further. Regarding platform support, you'd just need to include the SWT bundle for whatever platform you were targeting, for me it's org.eclipse.swt.gtk.linux.x86. hth, ken On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Christopher BROWN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Having developed with Java Swing for a long time, and having seen that > Oracle seem to have decided to place Swing into "maintenance mode" (with > emphasis going to JavaFX, which doesn't yet seem very cross-platform and > doesn't have anything like native UI widgets), I'm currently investigating > whether I can find the functionality I need by moving to SWT. > > At this point, I don't want the full Eclipse RCP platform (I don't actually > like Eclipse as an IDE, I prefer IntelliJ, but that's got nothing to do > with > my decision process here). I figured that SWT on its own, along with > JFace, > seems like a good fit. > > However, I'm not really sure what the best approach is with regards to > using > that in Felix. I'm running Felix in embedded mode (so no interactive > shell) > and would welcome advice as to how I might load SWT as an OSGi bundle (or > in > the system classpath) in an application primarily targeting Windows, Linux, > and Mac OS. I've seen (vague, no detail) tips about splitting up SWT into > a > JAR and using fragments for platform-specific stuff, but I'm not sure how > to > perform this splitting and how to select which fragment to load (remember, > I'm not expecting users to mess around with an interactive shell to set it > up, I aim to provide a "It Just Works" type of experience). > > Furthermore, it appears that JFace requires the Equinox OSGi runtime from > the documentation. If this is the case, does that rule out JFace/SWT from > within Felix? > > Thanks for feedback and advice, > Christopher > -- thx ken
