Java Reference
In-Depth Information
9.5
Summary
One of the nice things about
OSG
i development is that you have a great deal of flexi-
bility about whether you choose to use an
IDE
with
OSG
i support, or stick to your
favorite
IDE
and add in your
OSG
i bits at build time. Some excellent
IDE
plug-ins for
developing
OSG
i are available, but they're by no means compulsory. Eclipse is the
most popular base for developing
OSG
i, both because of the built-in
PDE
tooling and
alternative toolsets, like bndtools and the Maven Eclipse plug-ins. Both bndtools and
Eclipse
PDE
also allow you to run your tests inside the
IDE
as well as on the command
line, which can make writing and debugging tests much faster.
Tools are only a small part of the
OSG
i ecosystem. In part 3, we'll take a tour of the
broader enterprise
OSG
i ecosystem—extra technologies, bigger and higher stacks,
and the messy edges between the
OSG
i world and the non-
OSG
i world.
