3.3. Development Environment Installation

The code in this book has been developed and tested using the Galileo SR1 release of Eclipse. You can get this from http://eclipse.org/downloads. Since Eclipse is a tooling platform, several different configurations are available. The Eclipse team has put together a tooling configuration specifically for people building bundle-based applications—people like you—the “Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers” package. Despite the name, this is a comprehensive set of tools for writing OSGi bundles. More generally, any of the packages that include the Java Development Tools (JDT) or Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) will work fine.

Each package is available for a variety of machine configurations and is mirrored across the globe. Choose the appropriate package, platform, and mirror and download the tooling.