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To integrate Felix inside of Netbeans, you need Felix and Netbeans NetBeans and nothing else.

Installing Netbeans

First, you need Netbeans. To download the Netbeans IDE go to http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/final/ . This tutorial was done using Netbeans 6.1 but it should work on Netbeans 6.0.

Creation of the Felix binaries

To integrate Felix inside of Netbeans, you have two options:

1. Integrating the Felix release as a Java project. This is what we are going to cover in this tutorial.
2. Integrating the Felix release using the Maven plugin. But this option has issues that can be resolved but it takes a little more work. This will be covered in another tutorial for those that really want to pursue it.

Using the Felix release as a Java Project

Once, Netbeans is installed, you need to download Felix. You will find the Felix releases at http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi . Choose a binary release in your preferred archive format. Then, unzip the release in a temporary directory. We will copy the files into our project later.

Building and Using Felix Trunk

If you want to use the Felix trunk, follow the instructions located here http://felix.apache.org/site/building-felix.html to checkout and build it. The Felix binaries are created in the main project (directory). We will copy these files into our project later.

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Using Felix with NetBeans

This integration tutorial uses a Java project for the integration. This new project will contain Felix. In the following sections it will be explained how-to do this.

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Now that we are able to launch Felix as a Java Application we can use the debugging and profiling features built into Netbeans. Future tutorials will go into more detail on how to do this.

Conclusion

This document has presented one way in which you can integrate Felix inside of Netbeans. For any questions or feedback, feel free to send an email to rdjackson at gmail dot com or on the Felix mailing list users at felix dot apache dot org