Question

I am trying to follow an OSGi bundle tutorial (http://www.vogella.de/articles/OSGi/article.html). It includes this method in the Activator class:

public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
    System.out.println("Starting de.vogella.osgi.firstbundle");
}
public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
    System.out.println("Stopping de.vogella.osgi.firstbundle");
}

Unfortunately, the println statements don’t print even though the tutorial writer expects them to print. I am obviously new to OSGi and Eclipse, so I am quite lost. Can someone help me along?

Answer 1

Well, I said I was confused. The tutorial mentioned above runs the first demo in Eclipse, but quickly shifts to a standalone container. I got that to work, but broke off for the night and when I came back in the morning started using the built-in OSGi console to follow the standalone instructions. This doesn’t work very well and results in the odd behavior described above. When I went back to the standalone container as directed in the tutorial it works better.