Launching OSGi from IDEA

I develop scala application using IntelliJ IDEA. I'd like my application modules to be OSGi bundles. In Eclipse it is possible to create a project which is both scala project and plug-in project. Eclipse also supports launching of Equinox platform and provides great configuration tool of which bundles to start and how. But I can't use Eclipse because of poor and slow scala plugin, so I need to use IntelliJ IDEA. In IDEA I tried Osmorc for running OSGi but this solution is very immature and doesn't work well. What are the other ways of launchin开发者_开发知识库g and configuring an OSGi application from IDEA?

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Not an exact answer, but one possibility would be to:

• set up a scala project with sbt and Intellij
• use bnd4sbt (It enables you to create OSGi bundles for your SBT projects)
• use scalamodules (a domain specific language for OSGi development)

(All thanks to the work of WeigleWilczek, including Heiko Seeberger who contributes here)

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All the OSGi frameworks can be launched as standard Java processes. For example to launch Felix:

java -jar path/to/felix.jar

To launch Equinox:

java -jar path/to/org.eclipse.osgi_version.jar

And so on.

Unfortunately the initial configuration differs substantially between framework implementations. For Felix you need a config.properties file, which is typically in the conf directory of the Felix installation directory (or you can set the felix.config.properties system property to point it elsewhere).

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I'm using PAX runner from inside Intellij IDEA to provision (deploy) OSGI bundles to Apache Felix and run the framework, but this is very annoying: I have to run "mvn install" first, then stop the running pax provisioning session, then restart it - for every change I make in the bundle. There got to be be a better way...