Using an OSGi console

Eclipse Equinox currently provides an OSGi console that you can use to aid with debugging. This console is not available by default. When you work with the Liberty profile, you can enable this console by configuring a port for it.

• Add the osgiConsole-1.0 Liberty feature to your server.xml file.

  <feature>osgiConsole-1.0</feature>

• Allocate a specific port to the OSGi console.
  You set the OSGi console port by specifying the osgi.console property. You set this property as a bootstrap property in the bootstrap.properties file. See Specifying Liberty profile bootstrap properties.

  osgi.console=5471

  The OSGi console is disabled when the osgi.console property is not set.

• Use Telnet to connect to the OSGi console port.

  telnet localhost 5471

• Use the console to explore the framework.

  The available commands vary, depending on the OSGi framework being used. Command-line help provides enough information to get started.