Programmatically Start OSGi (Equinox)?

Question

I\'d like to be able to easily start an OSGi framework (preferably Equinox) and load up any bundles listed in my pom from a java main.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Answer 1

Edit: Realized you wanted to start from inside java. Shame on me for not reading close enough

Check out this link. http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t93976.rhtml

Essentially

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
  String[] equinoxArgs = {"-console","1234","-noExit"};
  BundleContext context = EclipseStarter.startup(equinoxArgs,null);
  Bundle bundle = context.installBundle(
    "http://www.eclipsezone.com/files/jsig/bundles/HelloWorld.jar");
  bundle.start();
}

Edit: Maven

It seems that https://groups.google.com/group/spring-osgi/web/maven-url-handler?pli=1 contains an OSGi URl Handlers Service that can take URLS of the following format and load bundles from them ( mvn://repo/bundle_path )