Eclipse PDE: Redeploy bundle to running equinox osgi framework

I have a quite complex equinox application that I start in Eclipse with a usual launch configuration. It takes about 2 minutes to start so I don't want to restart it each time I make some minor code changes during development.

Is there some way to redeploy a single Eclipse plug-in to the launched framework? Actually it should be quite easy given the modular structure of osgi and the separated class loaders to install some function like this. I found the org.eclipse.ui.tools package in the eclipse platform incubator which seems to have a dynamic bundle install/uninstall but don't know how to use it with my own launch config.

Any ideas about how to re开发者_如何学编程solve this? Does it work with JRebel and are there alternatives? Thank you, Stefan

Depends a lot on how you want to perform this deployment. The simplest method would be to start your application with the option "-console" and use the OSGi console to make any install / update / refresh that you need. But again, I don't know if in your case this can be a viable option.