Lightning Talk – Building Eclipse Plug-Ins (and OSGi Bundles) with Bazel
summary
Attempting to build Eclipse plug-ins and OSGi bundles with Bazel encounters two concrete problems: Eclipse workflows expect a manifest‑first target platform and P2 assembly, while popular tooling like BND generates manifests from bytecode and Maven Tycho provides the P2 integration. Existing Bazel Eclipse rules are outdated and scale poorly, an OSGi rules repo looks promising but unproven, and the practical conclusion is that integrating full Eclipse/OSGi behavior into Bazel is high effort and currently on hold.
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