I am pleased to announce that the Eclipse PDE integration for Apache Felix Karaf is finally ready for others to use.

Notable features include:

• A Target Platform Definition that allows developers to target only the bundles found in Karaf distributions.
• An Eclipse Run/Debug launcher configuration that configures Karaf to run inside the workbench transparently to the developer
• A context menu item "Run on Apache Felix Karaf"
• Automatic deployment of workspace projects to running Karaf instances without copying files