Just a quick update to running Apache Felix Karaf in Eclipse PDE: I now have it launching Karaf with proper configuration synchronization. This means that there are no longer any exceptions during startup due to missing configuration files and the files are only synchronized if they are missing.

Developers can freely modify the default configuration files or provide their own entirely and the launcher will preserve those changes between executions.

I am one step closer to having this working well enough to develop against. The remaining tasks: