In Eclipse, choose File → Project... → Plug-in-Project.

Choose any name.

For terms of compatibility, the runtime environment for the new Plug-in shall be any OSGi implementation. Therefore, we choose standard for the OSGi framework.

Click Next.

The settings of the next page provide some meta information for the Plug-In, which also contain the runtime specification. Make sure you choose J2SE-1.5

The generation of an Activator class is not necessary, because we will provide a custom activator later on.

Click Finish.

In order to have access to the framework classes, we must at last declare some import statements:

Double click the MANIFEST.MF file to open the Plug-In's Manifest editor.

Click on Dependencies → Imported Packages → Add...

Select

de.kerner.commons

de.kerner.commons.logging

de.kerner.commons.osgi.utils

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.abstractstep

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.core

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.data

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.server

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.server.data

de.mpg.mpiz.koeln.anna.step

org.osgi.framework

org.slf4j*

org.apache.log4j*

Done! Your Plug-in project has been created. Continue with Example one to add some functionality.