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Installation & Getting Started with Bndtools 7.0.0

There are different flavors you can install Bndtools.

Users: If you just want to use Bndtools for your own projects

Developers: If you want to contribute to bndtools

Setup source code into your existing Eclipse installation. See our Bndtools Developer Guide

To get then started with the bndtools Workspace model, you can follow some videos that can get you started.

The recommended way to install Bndtools via the Eclipse Marketplace.

From the Help menu select Install New Software...
When the dialog opens, click the Add... button near the top-right.
In the Name field enter Bndtools. In the Location field enter one of the the following P2 Repository URLs

Type	URL	alt. URL
Latest stable release	`https://bndtools.org/bndtools.p2.repo/7.0.0/`	via jfrog
Latest release candidate	`https://bndtools.jfrog.io/bndtools/update-rc`
Latest build snapshot	`https://bndtools.jfrog.io/bndtools/update-snapshot`

To get started with Bnd/Bndtools we recommend:

For more complete information on the changes in the Bndtools release, see https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/wiki#release-notes.

Bndtools is built to run on Eclipse 2020-06 or later. So Bndtools 7.0.0 may not run on older versions of Eclipse.
This release is based on Java 17. This tends to be not noticed for developmet but there are a number of runtime bundles in the distribution that now also have become Java 17 code. This could generate the error during a bndrun launch or with bnd/OSGi testing when the Execution Environment is set to < 17. The easy fix is to set this to 17. If this is impossible, the previous launchers than run on 1.8 can then be used (if they are available in the repositories). Add

-runpath \
    biz.aQute.launcher;version="[6.4.0,7)", \
    biz.aQute.tester.junit-platform;version="[6.4.0,7)"