Blog posts tagged with "bndtools"

  • Remote launching OSGi applications with bnd (updated)

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    Recently, I wanted to build an OSGi application that should run on my RaspberryPi. So I wanted an easy way to test this application on the Pi. After some research I found the possibility to use a remote laucher in bnd. There are two parts necessary for that: the remote... [more]

  • Eclipsecon 2023 - Meet Data in Motion at the OSGi Summit and the Eclipsecon 2023

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    This weekend we went to the Eclipsecon 2023 in Ludwigsburg, as we are used to since years now. Together, with the great team of the Eclipse Foundation we also helped to organize the second OSGi Summit that is part of the Eclipsecon. Many participants from the OSGi Working Group are... [more]

  • Bndtools - Import-Package declaration for references to static fields in OSGi

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    Anyone who works with bndtools, knows that it calculates Package-Import declarations for the manifest. This is a great feature, because one wouldn’t do this by hand. In case use references to static fields e.g. for constants with primitive types, the compiler replaces the constant name with the constant value at... [more]

  • Mockito#mock causes NoClassDefFoundException in OSGi

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    Today I migrated some of our OSGi integration tests in our bnd workspace to the OSGi-Test support. We already used our own wrapper test classes, to deal with services, service availability and configurations. With the great initial work and some support of a good friend, most of our existing features... [more]

  • Upload to maven central with individually versioned bundles

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    We recently started uploading our bundles to maven central. To do that a trusted staging repository is needed (in our case sonatype). They perform certain checks, to make sure your artifacts meet the standards (like e.g. jars need to be signed) of maven central. BND can smoothly handle the the... [more]

  • OSGi in a Nutshell: Working with service configurations

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    Today we will see a slightly more complicated version of the use case we saw last week. We will always talk about services, but of configurable services. Use Case Imagine you have two or more implementations for the same service, and you have a consumer which needs one of your... [more]

  • OSGi in a Nutshell: Launch a simple Service

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    This week we are finally ready to start working on our first use case: how to create and launch a simple service component in OSGi. We will proceed as follows: we first describe how this can be done in a pure Java environment, and then we will move to OSGi.... [more]

  • OSGi in a Nutshell

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    With this post we would like to announce a new blog series, aimed to describe the world of OSGi. Data In Motion Consulting GmbH has been an OSGi Alliance member for many years now, and we also provide trainings for both developers and project managers, who want to start using... [more]

  • Starting bndrun files using Gradle

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    Running bndrun files using gradle Bnd provides gradle tasks to run bndrun files and start an application. When listing all gradle tasks using gradlew tasks, you will find the bndrun tasks in the exports section of the list. Usually the tasks look like run.<bndrun-file-name>. If you want to start you... [more]

  • Bootstraping OSGi Applications with the Gecko.io Runtime Exporter

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    We recently updated our documentation for the Gecko.io runtime project. The Gecko.io Runtime contains small helpers to improve the handling of your OSGi application in production environments and development. The org.gecko.templates project contains bndtools project templates, to ease the creation of project within your Eclipse IDE. Our org.gecko.runtime.boot registers some... [more]

  • Create a “Hello World” Eclipse RAP application with OSGi and Bndtools

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    The Eclipse Remote Application Platform is an Eclipse project for enabling RCP application for the web or mobile usage. It can be used in OSGi or Servlet containers such as JEE. There is a good tooling based on the Eclipse tooling. We got a request from a customer, if it... [more]

  • RCP development with bnd

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    About one and a half years ago we switched all our projects from using PDE together with Maven Tycho to bnd. The increase in development speed we reached was immense. Additionally bnd automatically pushed us towards writing better OSGi software. Over the time we experienced a lot of fallacies PDE... [more]

  • Handling SNAPSHOT and RELEASE builds with BND

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    A while back, we reactivated our Nexus and wanted to use bnd to release to an OBR and an the Nexus at the same time. As usual, we have an automated build handled by jenkins, which does a snapshot build from our develop branch and a release build from changes... [more]

  • Remote launching OSGi applications with bnd

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    Recently, I wanted to build an OSGi application that should run on my RaspberryPi. So I wanted an easy way to test this application on the Pi. After some research I found the possibility to use a remote laucher in bnd. There are two parts necessary for that: the remote... [more]

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