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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:03:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: Embedding felix and using felix.auto.deploy.dir
From: Neil Bartlett <njbartlett@gmail.com>
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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
<david.griffin@parasense.co.uk> 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 C=
hapter 13 example paint application from the book. I'll start with those an=
d 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 in=
formation, 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
>
>
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