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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> 
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Does anybody think about to use eRCP/eSWT with Felix?

Yalcin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard S. Hall" <heavy@ungoverned.org>
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> 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
>


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