Why not use CRXDE Lite for developing OSGI bundles

[Jai1122]

Hi All,

    I have been writing OSGI bundles in CRXDE Lite only. Many say it is supposed to be done by setting up Maven and Eclipse.

I could not find any reasons why it should not be developed in Lite. Can someone please tell that to me?

[Alexandre_COLLI · Accepted solution]

Hi Jail,

Maven and your favorite IDE - might be Eclipse - offer you many advantages:

• more efficient code writing workflow with code completion and the other tons of great feature of your IDE
• well known release process with maven-release plugin
• simple integration with continuous integration tooling such as Jenkins or Travis
• simple and powerful integration with AEM thanks to our AEM Developer Tools [1]
  • Seamless integration with AEM instances through Eclipse Server Connector.
  • Synchronization for both content and OSGI bundles.
  • Debugging support with code hot-swaping capabiliby.
  • Simple bootstrap of AEM projects via a specific Project Creation Wizard.
  • Easy JCR properties edition.

One more thing, once your projects are set up you can collaborate with your peers by sharing your code on a version control system such as Git or a non distributed one like Subversion.

Note that we also provide a Brackets extension [2] that might better suit you if you are focusing on front-end development.

[1] http://docs.adobe.com/content/docs/en/dev-tools/aem-eclipse.html

[2] http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/dev-tools/sightly-brackets.html

[Jai1122]

Thats excellant summary of going for an IDE + Maven. Many thanks alexandre.