Re: [equinox-dev] Starting equinox framework in program

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the Galileo release (3.5), Equinox is implementing the next version of the OSGi R4.2 specification. One of the new features in OSGi R4.2 is the ability to boot another framework instance. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244443 for more information.

You should be able to do something like this

Properties configuration = new Properties();
configuration.put(SystemBundle.STORAGE, "/path/to/my/configuration");
SystemBundle equinox = new Equinox();
equinox.init(configuration);
BundleContext systemContext = equinox.getBundleContext();
// manage your bundles here

// now start the framework
equinox.start();


Note that the for RFC 132 is still early and evolving. It would be good to get others experience with using this new feature. If you have any issues or questions about using this feature please respond in the bug report https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244443


Tom



"林恺" ---09/04/2008 06:04:04 AM---Meng, Thanks again. The reason why I did not install my plug-in in my application is: my application is not an RCP-based app

From:	"林恺" <bmlinkai@xxxxxxxxx>
To:	"Equinox development mailing list" <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	09/04/2008 06:04 AM
Subject:	Re: [equinox-dev] Starting equinox framework in program

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Meng,
   Thanks again. The reason why I did not install my plug-in in my application is: my application is not an RCP-based application, most of them might be headless application or web UI application. I developed this plug-in because I was building an IDE to support the development and monitor Equinox-based application, and my monitor plug-in is part of this IDE. 
   I have thought about using Runtime.exec() to start my another Equinox framework, but how can I get BundleContext using this method?
 
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2008/9/4 Meng Xin Zhu <zhumx@xxxxxxxxxx>

Why not install those plug-ins in your application? Then your plug-in can be in charge of monitoring and manging those plug-ins. The EclipseStarter.startup you called in your plug-in that is the main function of your app. You can easily find that Equinox prevents the framework running again if it's running in the source code of EclipseStarter. If you want to start another Equinox framework, try Runtime.exec.
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