I have used EIK briefly and really very useful and time saving during
development. Eclipse Virgo provides the similar WTP runtime and having
EIK for Karaf will help developer who are used to developing Eclipse WTP.
Raj
On Wednesday 31 August 2011 08:01 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
I have already seen the integration some time ago and it really is great.
Basically I would like to see this in the Karaf community. The only
issue is if it would be better suited as an Eclipse project but I am
open to both variants.
Christian
Am 31.08.2011 14:50, schrieb Jean-Baptiste Onofré:
Hi all,
I discussed since few days with Stephen Evanchik, the author of EIK.
EIK is currently an Eclipse lab project.
EIK (Eclipse Integration for Karaf) is the integration of the Apache
Karaf application platform and the Eclipse IDE.
Notable features include:
* An Eclipse Run/Debug launcher configuration that configures
Karaf to run inside the workbench transparently to the developer
* Automatic deployment of workspace plugin projects to running
Karaf instances without copying files
* A Target Platform Definition that allows developers to target
only the bundles found in Karaf distributions
* A Target Platform Provisioner that automatically constructs a
target platform from any Karaf distribution on the user's local disk
* JMX instrumentation of the Running/Debugging Karaf instance.
* Eclipse views that display the Bundle and Service status of
Karaf instances
Experimental features:
Web Tools Platform integration including:
* Karaf server runtime with associated classpath maintenance
* Karaf runtime locator that scans local disks for compatible
Karaf distributions
Stephen and I would like to propose EIK as a new Karaf sub-project.
We're going to change the current license to use an Apache 2.0
license (I will take care of the IP-clearance), update the code base
with the correct header files, etc.
As for the others Karaf sub-project, EIK will use a SVN location like
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/eik (and an associated git repo).
I will take care of others resources (Jira, Jenkins, Sonar, etc, etc
:)).
EIK could be a good platform for both Karaf development, but also to
construct some tool on top of that (I can image some deployment or
advanced monitoring "studios" powered by Eclipse/EIK, etc).
This thread is not a vote, just a discussion thread. I would like to
have your view about EIK before starting a formal vote.
Thanks
Regards
JB
