Article: Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi
Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi by Jeff McAffer and Simon Kaegi
… So what makes Eclipse capable of adapting to these different environments – what makes Eclipse tick?
At its core, Eclipse has a modular Java runtime called Equinox ( http://eclipse.org/equinox). Equinox in turn is an implementation of the OSGi Alliance’s Service Platform R4 specification ( http://osgi.org). In fact, it is the reference implementation for the framework portion of that specification. At the heart of the OSGi specification is the notion of bundles.
