Robert F. Beeger: December 2008 Archives

This end of year release has some new features for running Equinox products and applications and fixes a critical bug in the OSGi Bundles run configuration.

The critical bug prevented the usage of the OSGi Bundles run configuration in most cases. So anyone using or trying to use it should update.

For the Equinox run configuration type the following features were added:

• additional JVM parameters can specified.
• additional Equinox parameters can be specified.
• the runtime directory can be specified
• products and applications based on Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2 can be run

A regular expression can be specified to filter out files from the additional JAR contents.

Thanks for contributions for this release to Nick Pratt.

0.10.0 comes with the following changes and new features:

• OSGi bundles run configuration: bundles which are part of the framework can now be started.
• OSGi bundles run configuration: libraries which are themselves OSGi bundles can now be started.
• Multiple rules can now be applied when building a library bundle.
• Bundle version from facet dialog is now correctly built into the manifest.
• Library cache can now be deleted with a button in library building dialog.
• Fragment bundles are now handled correctly when manifest files are edited manually.
• The classpath used by the run configurations to start the OSGi container now only contains what is needed to start the container.
• Added spell checking for manifest header names.