Add a readme that explains how to use the pde reusable osgi components #1334
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This adds the following readme to explain the pde reusable osgi components
OSGi Reusable Components for bndlib
The bndlib offers various ways to build better OSGi bundles, this is used in
This plugin offers a set of reusable UI components for these usecase to be integrated with Eclipse IDE in a way that is not specific to a given tooling (e.g. PDE, bndtools, m2e, ...)
and therefore can be shared across these to prevent duplicate efforts, see here for more details.
General concepts for integration
One problem for such a reusable component is that it usually needs to get holds of some objects in an specific way that is specific to a given tooling.
To mitigate we use the Eclipse Adapter Pattern as it is widely used in Eclipse, flexible and allows
the use of OSGi services / Dependency Injection already.
The IProject adapter
Components need to learn the project and workspace of a bndlib backed project, for this the very first step for an integration is to provide an adapter that can
transform an (Eclipse)
IProject
into a (bndlib)Project
(from were the Workspace then can be derived), an example might look like this:Available components
Beside some integration stuff (e.g. enable to discover bndlib plugins inside an OSGi runtime)
it currently offers these components: