Pax Runner

[alexandru.re...@gmail.com]

is there any way to find out who was maintaing that pax runner and to see why the project was discontinued.

it was able to let eclipse know how to trigger an osgi run configuration with a different framework than equinox. i want that :D

[Christoph Läubrich]

Can you elaborate a little bit more what you want to archive? Starting
an OSGi-Framework is nothing special and does not require pax-runner in
any way, pax runner was used to configure the launch, but that is very
specific, for example configuring the launch would be more a task of
eclipse IDE than pax runner.

Am 03.05.19 um 17:56 schrieb alexandru.re...@gmail.com:

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[Niclas Hedhman]

I can chime in;

I started Pax Runner because back in the day, because it was really hard to write a bundle that worked on all available frameworks, and it was even harder to automate it. Alin Dreghiciu took over at some point and made Pax Runner into what it still is. That was in 2007 or so...

When Alin, I and Toni Menzel were on a project together, Toni and Alin proceeded to create/expand Pax Exam, a testing framework that leveraged Pax Runner to run your tests against all of the frameworks. In parallel a "native" test launcher was made in Pax Exam and at some point the Pax Runner launcher was dropped, and Pax Runner basically ended up being unmaintained from then on, mostly because it wasn't too hard to do the same thing with Pax Exam. I even used Pax Exam in 2011 as launcher on a project where we couldn't decide which framework to use.

So, most things that Pax Runner can do, can be done in Pax Exam (at least ver 2.x). But there is nothing stopping you from reviving it and take over maintenance. If one prefers config files over code, then that could make sense.

HTH

Niclas

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 11:56 PM <alexandru.re...@gmail.com> wrote:

is there any way to find out who was maintaing that pax runner and to see why the project was discontinued.

it was able to let eclipse know how to trigger an osgi run configuration with a different framework than equinox. i want that :D

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[Achim Nierbeck]

And if you are looking for something that is more like a minimal runtime to run your OSGi -  Services.

I would suggest to switch over to the Apache Karaf project. Most likely the minimal version is what you're looking for.

It's flexible, you can decide which framework to use, it's stable and it includes already everything to expand it and use it.

For example, the logging is already handled by included Pax Logging.

For me, this would be my starting point to get OSGi running smoothly. Without wanting to take a look at how to run a framework.

just my 2 cents, Achim

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