Marcel,

Questions about the Eclipse implementation are best directed to the
Eclipse newsgroup (news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform) rather than
here.

Regards,
Tim


Marcel Offermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05-08-2005 10:41:32:

> Hello Jeff,
>
> On Friday 05 August 2005 05:20, Jeff McAffer wrote:
>
> > Yes, you are looking in the wrong place.  Equinox is an incubator
for new
> > runtime technology for he Eclipse Platform.  Two years ago it was the
> > place that we started the Eclipse on OSGi work.  As of Dec 2003 the OSGi
> > work "graduated" and was moved into the main Eclipse project.  Phase
2 of
> > Equinox then started about a year ago to investigate further OSGi
> > modularity changes (e.g., RFC70 and 79) among other things.
Sometime late
> > last year that code also graduated and was absorbed into the main code
> > stream.  http://eclipse.org/osgi indicates the forums for OSGi-related
> > interaction at eclipse.org.  Note that the vast majority of the
> > development interaction happens in Bugzilla in the Platform/Runtime
> > component.
>
> > Fact is fact.  We have done poorly at highlighting OSGi and facilitating
> > community development.  This characteristic was noted at the World
> > Congress last year yet we still were distracted with all the R4 work
etc.
> > As mentioned, the 3.2 plan calls for us to rectify the situation.
>
> We always test our OSGi applications both under OSCAR and Knopflerfish
and
> since you posted so extensively on the Eclipse OSGi runtime, I decided
to try
> that too (I did so when 3.0 was under development but could not
findany good
> documentation back then). Unfortunately, I am having a difficult time
finding
> documentation again. I've looked at the link you provided, I've tried
> searching the whole Eclipse site, I've tried searching the Eclipse 3.1
help
> files, but I cannot find any API documentation on the EclipseStarter
class
> which I need to launch the framework. I want to configure it to start
some
> bundles from code.
>
> Please take this as constructive criticism, because I do like to add a
third
> framework to our testing environment, it's just that I'm having a hard
time
> setting it up.
>
> Greetings, Marcel

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Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Java technology centre, UK.

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