How to start osgi console (Equinox)

Question

I'm trying to start an OSGi console in Windows 7.

I used this statement on a terminal window:

java -jar org.eclipse.osgi.jar -console

But it doesn't work that is nothing does happen nor doesn't appear prompt osgi>. And typing on keyboard is ineffective except for ^C that makes to reappear usual terminal prompt.

Anyone has any suggestion?

Answer 1

Starting from Equinox 3.8.0.M4, it has a new console. So you need also these four bundles for it to run properly.

1. org.eclipse.equinox.console.jar
2. org.apache.felix.gogo.shell.jar
3. org.apache.felix.gogo.command.jar
4. org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.jar

These jar files can be found in your Eclipse installation folder under 'plugins' folder. Copy these jars and put them in the same folder with your org.eclipse.osgi.jar and it would look like:

• somedir/
  • configuration/
    • config.ini
  • org.eclipse.osgi.jar
  • org.eclipse.equinox.console.jar
  • org.apache.felix.gogo.shell.jar
  • org.apache.felix.gogo.command.jar
  • org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.jar

Then edit config.ini as:

osgi.bundles=org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime@start, org.apache.felix.gogo.command@start, org.apache.felix.gogo.shell@start, org.eclipse.equinox.console@start

After doing this, run java -jar org.eclipse.osgi.jar -console in your command line and the OSGi console will start.

Reference Bug 371101