OSGi : Install Eclipse Plugins

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Install Eclipse OSGi

• Go to Eclipse Downloads and choose Eclipse Classic (attention at operating system 32/64 bit).
• Unzip the downloaded file in /Eclipse_Platform/OSGi directory.
• Start Eclipse (click the eclipse executable file in /Eclipse_Platform/OSGi/eclipse directory
• In the dialog box:Workspace Launcher -> Workspace type: ./wskp/{app-type} where {app-type} could be: hello or simple or lab

Follow the this tutorial to build OSGi bundels after you install Elcipse Classic

For this course you will be using the workspace defined in /Eclipse_Platform/OSGi/eclipse/wksp/...

The root directory for this course is: Eclipse_Platform Basics/eclipse subdirectory OSGi/eclipse subdirectory RCP/eclipse subdirectory Mobile/ Android/eclipse subdirectory BlackBerry/eclipse subdirectory Enterprise/ Virgo/eclipse subdirectory WTP/eclipse subdirectory

where: {topic} must be: basics or osgi or rcp or android or blackberry or virgo or wtp {subject} must be: hello or simple or lab {subpack} a subpackage name (if need it for complex apps)

Check your working environment by running the Hello Sample from Course Repository

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You may also want to install JUnit Library to be able to debug your applications.

To install JUnit follow the instructions:

1. Download JUnit4.x.jar from the JUnit website . The download contains a "junit-4.*.jar" which is the JUnit library.
2. To make JUnit available in your Java project you have to add the the JUnit library file to your Java classpath. (If you do not know how to do it, please use this Eclipse tutorial to learn how to add jar files to your Eclipse project).

For the understanding of OSGi - Equinox go to:Equinox Downloads