Cytoscape 3 Development on Eclipse 3.6 Helios and Other New Tools

(This page is under construction!)

Introduction

During the last 6 month, lots of things happened in OSGi and Maven world. Major news are:

• Maven 3 is now in beta version and major IDEs (Eclipse and NetBeans) use snapshot version of Maven 3 as their default maven executable.

• Spring DM's migration to Eclipse Foundation as Gemini Blueprint
• Spring Framework version 3 is now available as production release

This is a overview of new tools/technologies I found in my research on this topic.

Discussion Items for Cy3 Development Tools

• Spring 2.5 or 3
• Gemini Blueprint (almost identical to Spring DM 2.x) or Spring DM 1.x
• Maven 2 or 3 (3 should be backward compatible)
• OSGi bundle creation helpers - BND/Bundlor?

New Tools

• Eclipse 3.6 Helios

• SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.3.3

  • Read this guide

• Tycho

  • Create OSGi bundle with Tycho

• Gemini Blueprint - Spring DM has been migrated to official Eclipse project.

• SpringSource Bundlor

Useful Links

Spring DM/Blueprint

• http://live.eclipse.org/node/729

Maven 3

• Maven 3 Wiki