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Karaf PDE Integration AND Web Tools Platform Integration

Posted June 28, 2009 - 9:42pm by Stephen Evanchik

Little by little I chip away at the workflow problems while developing OSGi applications. This evening I put the finishing touches on some refactoring and feature enhancements:

  • Refactored core, non-UI, code in to its own plugin
  • Finished the definition of my KarafTargetPlatformModel concept (more on this later).
  • Added a new OSGi Framework definition in Eclipse for Karaf on Equinox
  • Created an Eclipse Web Tools Platform Server Runtime for Karaf

All in all it was a very productive session. I will add the necessary code for the WTP Server Type soon.

Update to Karaf PDE Integration: Now with Java 1.5 support!

Posted June 26, 2009 - 11:15pm by Stephen Evanchik

I am pleased to release Karaf PDE Integration 3.4.2.20090613232

This update fixes a critical bug in how the target runtime plugin location was resolved as well as adding Java 1.5 support (it now works on my Mac which has been my litmus test for portability).

I am still working on my release engineering skills and have found the pde-maven-plugin. Hopefully I'll be able to fix it up so that a release is as simple as mvn install!

Respin of the Karaf PDE Integration feature

Posted June 20, 2009 - 8:27am by Stephen Evanchik

There were some problems with the plugin's installation -- I'm not sure what was going on but I have created a new version and packaged it as a feature instead of a full update site. I also recompiled in using Java 1.5 bytecode in the hopes that I can get it running on my Mac.

In any case, I was able to install this plugin successfully on a fresh download of Eclipse 3.4 with no additional plugins.

Get Karaf PDE Integration 3.4.2.1 here

Eclipse plugin release tooling is not as easy as it looks!

Posted June 18, 2009 - 9:42pm by Stephen Evanchik

Wow! I am surprised at the number of people that are interested in the Karaf PDE plugin. Unfortunately my understanding of how the Eclipse feature and update site tooling works is lacking so there are some gotchas with installation.

I am downloading a fresh copy of Eclipse (I can't find my original tarball) and will install my plugin to see what is going on.

Eclipse Update site for Apache Felix Karaf PDE integration

Posted June 18, 2009 - 12:00am by Stephen Evanchik

I've been having some trouble building my Eclipse Update site for the Karaf PDE Integration feature. The tooling is not exactly efficient or easy to use. In any case, here is the update site for the feature:

http://stephen.evanchik.com/software/karaf-pde-integration-site/

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