Create first Equinox app

In this tutorial we start from scratch and build Equinox app. Other tutorials are available here.

1. Create folder "tutorials/MyEquinoxApp", create file "build.gradle" in it, insert code:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    jcenter()
  }
  
  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.akhikhl.wuff:wuff-plugin:0.0.1'
  }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-equinox-app'

repositories {
  mavenLocal()
  jcenter()
}

The script describes that we are using wuff gradle-plugin and that we apply "eclipse-equinox-app" plugin to this project.

2. Invoke on command line:

gradle scaffold

Scaffold task creates Application class required by equinox library.

3. Invoke on command line:

gradle build

CHECK: folder "tutorials/MyEquinoxApp/build/libs" contains file "MyEquinoxApp-1.0.0.0.jar", which is proper OSGi bundle with automatically generated manifest and "plugin.xml".

CHECK: There's one product in "tutorials/MyEquinoxApp/build/output" folder. It contains "MyEquinoxApp" bundle in "plugins" subfolder and in "configuration/config.ini".

Attention: first build is slow, because wuff downloads Eclipse and installs it's bundles into local maven repository ($HOME/.m2/repository). Consequent builds will be much faster.

Note that you don't have to program "plugin.xml", "MANIFEST.MF", "config.ini" - all these files are generated and inserted into bundle and product automatically.

4. Run the compiled product from command line. The expected output:

   

The example code for this page: tutorialExamples/EquinoxApp-1.

Next page: Configure Equinox products.