What is this about? Step-by-step guide to start with Kura bundle development in 5 Mins, Californium included!
FYI: We base on this guide: http://eclipse.github.io/kura/doc/kura-setup.html
Done!
What is this about? An additional plugin, mToolkit, is needed to allow remote connectivity to an OSGi framework on a Kura-enabled target device.
It sounds similar to the component that deploy app to a real Android device when we develop Android app.
Interesting but skip this for now.
What is this about? We create a place with everything needed to develop Kura bundles.
For automated installation see Oomph installer below. Don't do this! We create the magic, not just watch the show
What is this? Why… This contains some libs needed for the development.. maybe..
To set up your Kura project workspace, you will need to download the Kura User Workspace archive from here: https://www.eclipse.org/kura/downloads.php
The page contains Kura distribution for different platform. We are look for “Developer's Workspace”.
From the Eclipse File menu, select the Import option. In the Import dialog box, expand the General heading, select Existing Projects into Workspace, and then click Next.
Now click the Select archive file option button and browse to the archive file, it is userworkspacearchive_2.1.0.zip.
I optionally add them to a new working set called “USER_WORKSPACE”. Let's see what we have. There are now a bunch of projects, mostly examples. 2 interesting projects are
org.eclipse.kura.emulator - What? this is the Kura emulator, similar to Anroid phone emulator, maybe we can run our bundle with it locally on dev machine.
target-definition - What is this? Google says: The Target Platform refers to the plug-ins which your workspace will be built and run against. It describes the platform that you are developing for. Look at it we will find all bundles provided by Kura. So it our bundle can be built, it should run on Kura!
Why? a few of our bundle will depend on Californium bundle. So it make sense to put it to target-definition and of course install the bundle when deploy Kura. How?
Right click project target-definition → New → Folder → name it “iotgw”
Download Californium to that folder (thanks http://stackoverflow.com/a/36405161/707704 for the information). Download link is here: http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.californium/californium-osgi/1.0.5 (latest)
double-click kura-equinox3.11.1.target to open it → Add… → Installation → Location: ${workspaceloc}/target-definition/iotgw
Click the arrow next to the target-definition project in the workspace and double-click kura-equinox_3.11.1.target to open it.
In the Target Definition window, click the link Set as Target Platform. Doing so will reset the target platform, rebuild the Kura projects, and clear the errors that were reported. At this point, you are ready to begin developing Kura-based applications for your target platform.
FYI: We now based on this: http://eclipse.github.io/kura/doc/hello-example.html
Copy this to the project: https://github.com/eclipse/californium/blob/master/demo-apps/cf-helloworld-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/californium/examples/HelloWorldServer.java
There are errors because our bundle does not know about californium bundles.
Click MANIFEST → dependencies → required plug-ins → add californium
Why this? CI Devops can not be automated with eclipse –
> maven-tycho-plugin
TODO..