Swing OSGi Modular Desktop Application Framework Jaroslav Tulach, Oracle Anton Epple, Eppleton

2 Agenda Platform vs. IDE OSGi for Developers OSGi for NetBeans NetBeans 6.9 IDE interoperability Q&A

3 NetBeans Platform The only Swing based Modular Rich Client Framework

4 NetBeans IDE Built on top of NetBeans Platform

5 OSGi for Developers OSGi - de-facto modularity standard – Developers demand support Maven – gaining attention – First class citizen in NetBeans – 5% of Maven packaging is OSGi already General OSGi – Stick to OSGi 4.x specification – Reuse OSGi experts work – Execution in Apache's Felix

6 Demo Maven & OSGi

7 OSGi for NetBeans Solution vs. content provider – Keep the brand – Get the content for “free” IDE Interoperability – Want a library? – Get all its environment too! Common Ground – Understand OSGi – OSGi as de-facto standard

8 Step by Step Implement OSGi interoperability – Provide the common ground Enable it for NetBeans Platform – Users can test it Reuse other IDE's bundles – Lead by example Engage partners – Teach writing of sharable code

9 NetBeans 6.9 Theme NetBeans Platform Perception – Standard UI - Swing – Non-standard module system OSGi interoperability – Single most requested feature – Reuse existing bundles – Run own bundles on server/client side – Use NetBeans APIs in OSGi mode – Adhere to standard Support development with OSGi

10 NetBeans & OSGi “Netigso” Bridge – Compatibility #1 goal – Felix or Equinox supported

11 OSGi for Platform Developers NetBeans Platform accepts OSGi – Mixure of “classical” and OSGi projects Ant – Import & limited creation – “Don't want to be OSGi experts” Maven – Develop OSGi as usual – Easily include OSGi projects

12 Exploring developer needs NetBeans APIs for OSGi – without our runtime – In any OSGi container – Platform APIs converted – More to come in future Ant – Run in OSGi mode Maven – Exposing a repository – Use “plain” OSGi artifacts

13 Demo NetBeans Platform Application on Felix

14 Using standard OSGi Services HTTPService dOSGi

15 Demo Embedded Server Sudoku dOSGi

16 Questions & Answers? OSGi happened – De-facto standard module system Swing – Standard UI toolkit NetBeans Platform – Common Ground for Swing and OSGi – Interoperability