Overview

Integration between Eclipse and our SKD is provided mainly through the mToolkit. It provides a set of Eclipse features and plugins that allow the development, testing and deployment of OSGi packages and images.

The mToolkit contains the following components:

• FIM Validator
• Image Builder
• OSGi Emulator
• OSGi Management
• OSGi Remote Launcher
• PAR Editor
• Remote OSGi Management
• TEE Tools

Known Issues And Limitations

• On Eclipse 4.4 there is one known problem which causes NPE during plugin export in some cases. This problem is fixed in Eclipse 4.4 SR1.
• Execution of TEE project files is NOT supported from Eclipse.
• Sometimes target platforms get messed when changing runtime location and switching to Target Platform page in preferences due to a bug in Eclipse.
• There is a known problem with Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) and Eclipse Photon (4.8M5) when Java 9 is used. It causes exporting of OSGi bundles to fail.

  Java 9 is not supported in Eclipse Neon (4.6).

• Resolution of imported packages that come from Java Runtime e.g. javax.script does not work for Eclipse Oxygen and newer versions because of breaking changes recently introduced in PDE build. PDE wrongly assumes that the system bundle of every target platform has symbolic name org.eclipse.osgi and this name is hard-coded everywhere.