# On the OSGi console install the following bundles
# (optionally set -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port=9980 to change the default http port)
# “services org.osgi.service.http.HttpService” to check for correctly installed server and port

# common http server deps
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20130517111416/repository/plugins/org.apache.commons.io_1.4.0.v20081110-1000.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20130517111416/repository/plugins/org.apache.commons.fileupload_1.2.2.v20111214-1400.jar

# equinox.http <= http servlet 2.1
#install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/equinox/drops/R-3.7.2-201202080800/org.eclipse.equinox.http_1.0.500.v20110413.jar
#install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20130517111416/repository/plugins/javax.servlet_2.4.0.v200806031604.jar

# equinox.jetty <= http server 2.4
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty_3.0.100.v20130327-1442.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet_1.1.400.v20130418-1354.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.http.registry_1.1.300.v20130402-1529.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/javax.servlet_3.0.0.v201112011016.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.servlet_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.continuation_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.util_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.io_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.http_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.security_8.1.10.v20130312.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/releases/kepler/201305100900/plugins/org.eclipse.jetty.server_8.1.10.v20130312.jar

# webconsole
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole-4.0.0.jar

# Optionally
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole.plugins.ds-1.0.0.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole.plugins.memoryusage-1.0.4.jar
install ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/apache/felix/org.apache.felix.webconsole.plugins.event-1.0.2.jar

# Go to: http://admin:admin@localhost:9980/system/console/bundles

xsltproc --stringparam timestamp $((`date +%s * 1000)) --stringparam 
repository file:///a/local/p2/repo/ rmap2compositeRepository.xsl my.rmap

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:bm="http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/RMap-1.0">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>

    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <!-- overwrite via parameters -->
    <xsl:param name="repository">file:///dev/null</xsl:param>
    <xsl:param name="title">vogella Packages Repository</xsl:param>
    <xsl:param name="timestamp">13691573970000</xsl:param>
    <xsl:param name="type">org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.artifact.repository.CompositeArtifactRepository</xsl:param>

    <xsl:template match="bm:provider">
        <!-- only accept public http|ftp repositories -->
        <xsl:if test="starts-with(bm:uri/@format, 'http://') or starts-with(bm:uri/@format, 'ftp://')">

                <!-- remove dangling ?importType=binary -->
                <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="contains(bm:uri/@format, '?importType=binary')">
                        	<child location="{substring-before(bm:uri/@format, '?importType=binary')}"/>
                        </xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise>
                        	<child location="{bm:uri/@format}"/>
                        </xsl:otherwise>
                </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="/">

            <repository name='&quot;{$title}&quot;' type='{$type}' version='1.0.0'>

              <properties size='2'>
                <property name='p2.compressed' value='true'/>
                <property name='p2.timestamp' value='{$timestamp}'/>
              </properties>
              <children>
                <child location='{$repository}'/>
                <!-- match all the child nodes of the template match=/ node -->
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
              </children>
            </repository>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The code as well as instructions can be found on Github. A p2 repo is online too. Make sure to read the instruction as the installation requires a manual step after installation with p2.

Unfortunately the PDE team has deemed non-Equinox frameworks not important enough to justify the change and hence marked the bug WONTFIX. You – the community – might want to show them, that compatibility across OSGi frameworks is no waste of efforts. Especially if Eclipse is supposed to remain the primary development environment for OSGi-based projects.

If you happen to have an answer or be otherwise an expert on this matter, please leave a comment on bug #313479. Thanks!

[1] Best Practices with distributed OSGi services
[2] Distributed OSGi – The ECF way

So in case you have a Mercurial/bzr/Darcs/… success story sitting in your pocket or you can answer Mike’s question regarding Mercurial, please leave a comment on bug #249745.

Oh yeah, with distributed version control being the hot topic for this year’s board elections, I am one of the candidates who had DVCS on his mission statement right from the get go. ;-)

Non-established since 2001


//customBuild.xml





And just before everything is zipped in site/build.xml, let p2 generate metadata from bits at ${updateSiteStagingLocation} and you’re done.


//site/build.xml

Until the fix to bug #263449 hits the grounds, “inplace” has to be used instead of “updateSite”.

To the rest of us, lets not waste time but start to collect ideas and approach prospective students now! I’ve prepared a 2009er ideas page on the wiki for us to use.