January 2010 Archives

In the last few weeks work on Osmorc has been a bit slow due to team changes, the holidays and a few personal things I had to attend to. However, development has come up to speed again so I’d like to bring up a few of the things I am working at to your attention.

• Pax Runner: There were many requests on the issue tracker and the plugin page to support Pax Runner. Current integration looks promising, the basic things like starting up a framework and deploying some bundles work very well. More advanced stuff like Eclipse applications and debugging is still in the works.
• UI Changes: The UI will be further streamlined. The run configuration dialog has become somewhat bloated and looks a bit different for each OSGi service - this will change. I am also looking at splitting up IDE and Project configuration so Osmorc behaves like all other plugins in that regard.
• Interaction with the running OSGi framework: Currently we only provide a console for Equinox and nothing for other OSGi frameworks. First step will be providing a console for all frameworks. A second step could be some graphical interaction (something like the GUI that Knopflerfish provides).
• Documentation: OSGi is a complex matter and Osmorc usage isn’t as straightforward as it could be. The documentation is somewhat outdated as well. A few tutorial videos could help as well.

So far these are the things being currently under work. The blog will hopefully see a few more entries than pure release announcements in 2010 as well. So stay tuned in . If you work with Osmorc and require a feature, please feel free to submit an issue to the issue tracker.