Thanks Richard. I'm sure you're aware of the impracticality of targeting a plug-in at both Eclipse and NetBeans! I might as well as you to add Felix support for iPhone...
Rgds Neil On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Richard S. Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > NetBeans does provide support for developing OSGi bundles since 6.9, I > believe. I don't do much bundle development, so I can't really comment on > it, but here is an example: > > http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/new-cool-tools-osgi-developers > > I do use NetBeans, though, because it makes working with our Maven-based > builds very easy. So for me, it is maven-bundle-plugin when I do want to > create a bundle...but I'd certainly love to have Neil add bndtools support > for NetBeans! :-) > > -> richard > > > On 9/26/11 9:03 AM, Neil Bartlett wrote: >> >> 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] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
