Code Muri

It seems to be very helpful when developing the OSGI bundle.

http://bndtools.org/

The easy, powerful and productive way to develop with OSGi. Based on bnd and Eclipse.

Type the following command at the OSGI console.

Reference : http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=zgBcBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT255&lpg=PT255&dq=connect+to+equinox+console+using+telnet&source=bl&ots=JE0yDkexpm&sig=ad3nta5ZKFZx9ZIk9h41YlIotu8&hl=ko&sa=X&ei=2aNzVMH0CoqX8QWEsoDYDw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=connect%20to%20equinox%20console%20using%20telnet&f=false

The following site gives good explanation and examples to show how to modularize existing web applications with OSGI.

http://server.dzone.com/articles/modularizing-existing-web

To make examples to be run, the point is that you should make the new Target definition which loads bundles under [example]/rsp_repository/rsp_target_platform.

and don't forget to copy org.eclipse.pde.http.ui_1.0.0.jar file to the dropins folder under eclipse installed folder.

The following picture shows example.

rsp4j-example-workspace.zip

Target definition can be added by 

Windows > Preferences > Plug-in Development > Target Platform menu.

: Reload command is useful when you copied some bundle to plugin folder newly.

: In the case of locations, variables can be used as below

ex) ${project_loc}\lib 

ex) ${eclipse_home} 

If you specify import packages in the MANIFEST.MF file as below,

Import-Package:

javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt

If no problem is, the specified jar will be added to the Plug-in Dependencies.

If not, check if the jar file including that package is in the target definition folder. This validation can be run at the "Run configuration" dialog as well.

help 

: lists all available commands

ss | grep text

: lists services which matches with text

bundle [bundle id]

: prints detailed information like Id,Status, Data Root and etc.

b [build id]

: prints all meta data related to this bundle

update [bundle id]

: applies newest bundle

diag [bundle id]

: prints diagnose messages

packages [package name]

: lists all the bundles which use the given package. Wild card can be used at package name.

install file:[file path]

: install a bundle into running OSGI environment. 

* [bundle symbolic name] also can be sued instead of [bundle id]

* And more useful console

Refer : 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecl-osgiconsole/

http://isurues.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/useful-equinox-osgi-commands/