Eclipse Community Awards 2012

Bndtools is the easy, powerful and productive way to develop OSGi based applications with Eclipse.
Bndtools is based on Bnd, the powerful bundle tool created by Peter Kriens.
It provides a lightweight and a rapid development lifecycle to create
OSGi based applications and products.

Bndtools supports:

• Ease of use and a rapid development lifecycle for OSGi
• Automatically assembles your bundles when a project files was changed
• Generate OSGi MANIFESTs from the Java classes
• Generate DS component XML description from annotations
• OBR Repositories and OBR Resolving
• Semantic Versioning
• OSGi Integrated Testing
• and many more features...

A small powerful tool for developing OSGi based applications with eclipse.
Initial the Bndtools project was created by Neil Bartlett. Now Neil Bartlett is the project leader of Bndtools, but a lot more people work on
the project see also the Bndtools github website.