Hi David, The fact that Eclipse is based on OSGi has absolutely no bearing on whether it is the best IDE for OSGi development. It's an implementation detail.
Having said that, I believe the best IDE for OSGi development is Bndtools, which is based on Eclipse. However I am slightly biased since I wrote (most of) it. I'm not aware of any OSGi-specific development support in NetBeans, though I have heard that it has good Maven integration, so that might be good if you intend to use the Felix Maven Bundle Plugin. IntelliJ has a plugin called Osmorc that has similar goals and design philosophy as Bndtools. Rgds, Neil On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your replies Richard and Neil. I'll look into both suggestions. In > fact, I'd just come across the launcher sample at > http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-framework-launching-and-embedding.html > and also the Chapter 13 example paint application from the book. I'll start > with those and see how I get on. > > On a slight aside, do you have any recommendations as to which IDE would be > the best choice for developing my application and bundles? I'm currently > experimenting with NetBeans (v7.x), but in my trawl through the web for > information, I've seen many references to Eclipse actually being based on the > OSGi framework, so I'm wondering if that would be a better choice of IDE. > > Dave > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
