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From: Peter Neubauer <peter@neubauer.se>
To: felix-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Gui Support
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:46:30 +0100
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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:52, John E. Conlon wrote:
> If it was an SWT gui would/could one run it in felix?  Conversely are
> there many people running Swing GUIs in equinox?
Yes,
we are running our GUI in Swing on Equinox with several frames on different 
screens simultaneously, running great. In fact we even have a bundle using 
the JDIC libraries to fire up a browser, packaging the needed jdic.dll into 
the bundle. Too bad that bundles can't extend the applications PATH like it 
can with the java.library.path, so we have to put the IeEmbed.exe for the 
jdic bundle into the working directory.

/peter
>
> BTW - looking forward to the 3.2 Eclipse release especially for the new
> equinox features.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 19:41, Jeff McAffer wrote:
> > Why not just run it on Equinox?
> >
> > Having said that, this would be an interesting exercise to try.  There
> > are a number of things that are outside the scope of the OSGi spec (e.g.,
> > the application model and various services that are supplied by the
> > Equinox framework) that likely differ between Felix and Equinox.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Yalcin Akdogan" <yalcin.akdogan@chello.at>
> > 01/10/2006 03:57 PM
> > Please respond to
> > felix-dev
> >
> >
> > To
> > <felix-dev@incubator.apache.org>
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > Re: Gui Support
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody think about to use eRCP/eSWT with Felix?
> >
> > Yalcin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard S. Hall" <heavy@ungoverned.org>
> > To: <felix-dev@incubator.apache.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: Gui Support
> >
> > > John E. Conlon wrote:
> > >> Will be deploying a GUI application within felix and would like to
> > >> administer felix and it's bundles with a gui that I call from within
> >
> > the
> >
> > >> application.
> > >>
> > >> What is the current think for how this should be done in felix?  Will
> >
> > it
> >
> > >> be similar (identical?) to the oscar's shellgui, tablelayout and
> > >> plugin approach? Can I just use those oscar bundles?
> > >
> > > You should be able to follow the exact same approach that you used with
> > > Oscar. You can use Oscar bundles directly, however, it is likely that
> > > their manifest ill have to be modified slightly to work with Felix. In
> > > particular, Felix is more strict when it comes to exposing classes on
> > > the class path, so the manifest of some Oscar bundles will need to be
> > > modified to import the packages they use off the class path (e.g.,
> > > javax.swing).
> > >
> > > I will try to move the bundles that you mention over to Felix soon, but
> > > in the meantime, just edit the manifest...if you have any difficulty,
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > -> richard