Hi,

I'm currently investigating in the field of dev environment for OSGi bundles.

My goal is to find a way to develop, test and debug with ease the bundles I'll be coding. Besides, I have some "cultural" requirements.

• I want to be able to use java continuous integration servers (typically, Hudson)
• As a consequence of that first requirement, I want to have a repeatable, one-click build process. My typical tool for that is maven.
• And finally, being long-term Eclipse user, and having the m2eclipse at hand to merge my eclipse env with my maven one, I obviously want to be able to test and debug with that IDE.

So far, here are the infos I know

• I can use (and have already tested) maven-bundle-plugin, maven-ipojo-plugin which both offer clean packaging facilities
• I have tested maven pax (and eclipse pax) and am not really satisfied with both : maven pax generates a very heavy project, where adding dependencies is very error-prone (the maven pax:import-bundle command line, with all its arguments, is a hell per se)
• I have taken a look at Karaf, which seems to have some nice direct maven provisionning, but I don't know how to integrate it with my Eclipse, besides using the traditionnal JPDA bridge. However, it seems to be more production-oriented than dev-oriented, and as such may require heavy configuration to fit my need (although the reading of its user manual doesn't revedal that).

Have you got any ideas ? Some maven/eclipse plugins ?