OSGi 5 Implementation

[Manuel Faux]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013 23:04:17 +0100
"puntogil at libero.it" <puntogil at libero.it> wrote:

> Il 09/11/2013 15:25, Manuel Faux ha scritto:
> > I'm trying to build NetBeans 7.4 under Fedora, which requires an
> > OSGi 5 specification. NetBeans originally ships the OSGi Alliance's
> > specification, whose license is not compatible with Fedora, as far
> > as I know (http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5?info=nothanks).
> >
> > Is there any OSGi 5 implementation already in Fedora's repos I can
> > use for that purpose? All packages I checked so far only support
> > OSGi 4 (Eclipse Equinox, JBoss OSGi, Apache Felix).
> try with eclipse-equinox-osgi package
> pushd libs.osgi/external
>    %lnSys %{_javadir}/eclipse/osgi.jar osgi.core-4.3.jar
>    %lnSys %{_javadir}/eclipse/osgi.services.jar osgi.cmpn-4.2.jar
> popd
Unfortunately Equinox only support OSGi 4, NB 7.4 requires Eclipse
Equinox for OSGi 4 and also an OSGi 5 implementation.

> > I found Knopflerfish, which is a OSGi 5 platform licensed under BSD
> > license, which would be compatible to Fedora
> > (http://www.knopflerfish.org/). Unfortunately this package does not
> > yet exist for Fedora. Building this package, would be kind of a
> > plan B.
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874472 (should be
> updated)
I saw this already, but I would like to avoid having another
dependency, for NB, if there would be an existing OGSi 5 package,
therefor just plan B.

> >
> > Manuel
> regards
> gil

Manuel