Historical links: - https://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Netbinox - used by JDeveloper: https://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/JDeveloper
Felix was the first OSGi integration I made. However then it turned out JDeveloper was using Equinox. Hence we started to support Equinox as well and achieved the biggest speeds ups with Equinox+NetBeans caching infrastructure. I hadn't had a reason to try to make Felix as fast as Netbinox. -jt Dne sobota 20. června 2026 23:24:53, středoevropský letní čas, Matthias Bläsing napsal(a): > Greetings, > > my understanding of the OSGI integration of NetBeans is, that both > Apache Felix and a patched version of Eclipse Equinox (Netbinox) can be > currently used. > > By default Netbinox is used. The reason as I understood is that some of > the bundled eclipse modules relied on special behavior of Equinox. > > While Netbinox works I think it has become a problem as it is not > maintained. We use a patched version of Equinox: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/f88a2a3dab55dc731996f4f9625065e92348 > 03d6/platform/netbinox/external/M20140115-0800.patch > > and that patch applies to equinox as of 12 years ago. (the name of the > patch file refers to this tag): > > https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox.framework/releases/tag/M20140115-> > 0800 > > The patch does not apply to newer versions of Equinox. > > > The latest change to the equinox patch added a hack to be able to load > recent versions of the bouncy castle OSGI bundles. For bouncy castle > that works as the package imports are marked optional, for other > dependencies we patch the JARs to be able to load them: > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/blob/f88a2a3dab55dc731996f4f9625065e92348 > 03d6/platform/o.apache.commons.lang3/build.xml#L29-L37 > > I was reminded of this when I tried to integrate new OSGI bundles to > support ssh signing with jgit. This fails on equinox as these import > JDK packages, which does not work on equinox. I don't think that > further patching is sustainable solution. > > So I tested and did this: > > - Remove NetBinox hard dependency from common code > (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/9426) > - add the required jgit jars > - remove NetBinox > - remove the unused packages: > - o.eclipse.core.contenttype > - o.eclipse.core.jobs > - o.eclipse.core.net > - o.eclipse.core.runtime > - o.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.auth > - o.eclipse.equinox.app > - o.eclipse.equinox.common > - o.eclipse.equinox.preferences > - o.eclipse.equinox.registry > - o.eclipse.equinox.security > > The hypothesis here is, that the eclipse packages were "only" there to > support Mylin (Bugtracking integration). As that was removed the > packages seem to unused and should be removed. > > > So before I create a PR from this: > > Is there a reason to keep two OSGI runtimes? > > Greetings > > Matthias > > > > PS: Sending from my apache address as the mailinglist has still broken > dmarc settings > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
