bnd is the Swiss army knife of OSGi, it is used for creating and working with OSGi bundles. Its primary goal is take the pain out of developing bundles. With OSGi you are forced to provide additional metadata in the JAR's manifest to verify the consistency of your "class path". This metadata must be closely aligned with the class files in the bundle and the policies that a company has about versioning. Maintaining this metdata is an error prone chore because many aspects are redundant.
JUDIE steht für Java Universal Database Import and Export. Das Tool exportiert einzelne oder alle Tabellen einer JDBC Datenbank nach XML und importiert diese wieder in andere Datenbanken. Es ist als API (JAR), Kommandozeilenprogramm oder Eclipse Plugin verfügbar. Es kann für Entwickler und Administratoren nützlich sein, um Daten zwischen Datenbanken zu übertragen, besonders zum Aufsetzen von Testdatenbanken. Wegen der einfachen API kann das auch automatisiert werden, z.B. als Skript oder Ant-Task.
The Fat Jar Eclipse Plug-In is a Deployment-Tool which deploys an Eclipse java-project into one executable jar.It adds the Entry "Build Fat-JAR" to the Export-Wizard.In addition to the eclipse standard jar-exporter referenced classes and jars are included to the "Fat-Jar", so the resulting jar contains all needed classes and can be executed directly with "java -jar", no classpath has to be set, no additional jars have to be deployed.
If you've spent any time doing Java programming with Eclipse it must have occurred to you that support for viewing and editing Jar files is a little limited. Having used Eclipse for over eighteen months, and since I hadn't yet built an Eclipse plugin, I decided to dive right in and build a viewer/editor that would let me stop using File Explorer or WinZip(1) for manipulating the Jar files in my projects. Hopefully forever.
Five days later here it is: JarPlug, the Java ARchive PLUGin for Eclipse (sorry... :). And what days: going up the learning curve of Eclipse plugin internals and trying to figure out a workflow paradigm for editing Jar files that made sense inside the Eclipse IDE. More on that later.