The mToolkit equips the Eclipse community with the necessary tools for fast the adoption of the OSGi technology. They extend the Eclipse development environment with a complete range of capabilities and facilities for the development and deployment of OSGi components and applications.

They also provide communication with OSGi-compliant frameworks, direct installation and lifecycle management of bundles, administration of OSGi frameworks and resources, all from within the Eclipse environment.

Features

• An extension of the Eclipse Plugin Development Environment.
• OSGi Release 4 support.
• RCP application development.
• OSGi Launcher - supports launching of mBS Professional and Equinox editions in normal and debug modes.

Benefits

• Rich capabilities for development of OSGi-based applications in Eclipse.
• Fast adoption of OSGi by Eclipse developers and reduced time for development.
• Extensive support for the creation of OSGi-compliant components and the deployment to OSGi target environments.
• Easy integration and extention with additional components.
• By having support for different Java virtual machines, the developer has the choice to use the most suitable VM for his needs.