Osgi launching from IDE

[dumoulin]

An exploration application needs an OSGI runtime to be executed. But, for instance, it isn't possible to launch such an application from outside this runtime, and from the SimExplorer IDE, or from outside Eclipse (with Equinox runtime) to make tests.

1. The first solution is to run the Equinox by a system call, and communicate through input/output stream.
2. A second solution could be to call the equinox launcher since the JVM runtime. See EclipseStarter

[dumoulin]

More complete tutorial

[dumoulin]

I've tried with the EclipseStarter class :

BundleContext bundleContext = EclipseStarter.startup(new String[] {"-console","1234","-noExit","local", "file:///home/dumoulin/design.jar"}, null);
bundleContext.installBundle("file://"+root+"/plugins/com.jcraft.jsch_0.1.37.v200803061811.jar");
bundleContext.installBundle("file://"+root+"/plugins/org.simexplorer.core_1.0.0.jar");
System.out.println(bundleContext.getBundle().getSymbolicName());
bundleContext.getBundle().start();

but the bundles doesn't seem to be loaded. So finally, I use the class org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main :

        System.setProperty("osgi.configuration.area", root + "/configuration");
        System.setProperty("osgi.install.area", root);
        File logFile = new File(root + "/equinox.log");
        logFile.delete();
        System.setProperty("osgi.logfile", logFile.getAbsolutePath());

        new Main().run(new String[]{"local", "file:///home/dumoulin/design.jar"});

[dumoulin]

Fixed with r1810 and the class SimExplorerRuntimeProxy. See also the test class.