Maven
Pax Runner is distributed via Maven. The pax-runner-assembly artifact is a self-contained download package.
All public releases are available from Maven Central with groupId org.ops4j.pax.runner.
Latest Release
The latest release is Pax Runner 1.7.6.
Development Snapshots
The latest development snapshots are available from the OPS4J Snapshot Repository hosted by Sonatype. These snapshots are built and deployed on every commit by our Hudson server.
Source Repository
Pax Exam sources are managed by Git on Github.
Release Notes
Pax Runner 1.7.6 is a maintenance release to support the latest Equinox and Felix framework versions. In addition, it fixes a bug in the InProcessExecutor.
As usual, all artifacts are available from Maven Central.
Pax Runner 1.7.5 lets you provision bundles using the reference: URL protocol. This is not an official OSGi protocol, but Equinox, Felix and Knopflerfish all support it. This release also supports the newest versions of these three OSGi frameworks and uses them by default.
As usual, all artifacts are available from Maven Central.
Pax Runner 1.6.1 has been released.
This release highlights are:
- Support for latest release version of Felix 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6
- Support for latest release version of Knopflerfish 3.1.0
- Support for latest release version of Equinox 3.6.1
- Latest Pax Swissbox 1.3.1 in use
- Latest Pax Scanner 1.1.0 in use
- Latest Pax URL 1.2.5 in use
- Bufgixes & Improvements !
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.5.0 has been released.
This release highlights are:
- Support for latest version of Felix (3.0.2)
- Support for latest version of Equinox (3.6)
- Support for latest version of Knopflerfish (3.0.0)
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.4.0 has been released.
This release highlights are:
- Support for latest version of Felix (2.0.2)
- Upgraded experimental support for Equinox 3.6.0 to M4
- Upgraded experimental support for Knopflerfish 3.0.0 to beta 2
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.3.0 has been released.
This release highlights are:
- Support for latest version of Felix (2.0.1)
- Support for latest version of Equinox (3.5.1) and experimental support for 3.6 (M2)
- Upgraded experimental support for Knopflerfish 3.0.0 to beta 2
- Use latest Pax URL
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.2.0 has been released.
This release highlights are:
- Support for latest versions of Felix (2.0.0) and Knopflerfish (2.3.2, 2.3.3, 3.0.0 (beta version))
- New way of specifying profiles (alternative to --profiles)
- Select your own shell (read more...)
- New ways to provision bundles: assembly: and assemblyref:
- Speed up Maven urls resolution by using a composite repository (via public Sonatype Nexus repository) instead of the four repositories searched before
OSGi Alliance compendium bundle not provisioned automatically anymore (make your own choice via "compendium" profile)- Various fixes and improvements
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.1.1 has been released.
This release fixes the release problem from Pax Runner - 1.1.0 that did not include the necessary jars in the assembly.
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.1.0 has been released.
This release of Pax Runner adds support for just released Eclipse Equinox 3.5 and Apache Felix 1.8.1.
Checkout release notes for details.
Pax Runner 1.0.0 has been released on June 23, 2009 at OSGi Alliance DevCon Europe.
This is first release out of "beta" versioning and is the first release that has been deployed to maven central repository.
This release highlights are:
- Merged Pax Cursor as "Pax Runner Plugin for Eclipse"
- Running pax runner profiles offline no internet connection required after a first run)
- Use latest versions of Base, Pax Swissbox and Pax URL
Checkout release notes for details.
Previous Releases
- Pax Runner - 1.5.0
- Pax Runner - 1.4.0
- Pax Runner - 1.3.0
- Pax Runner - 1.2.0
- Pax Runner - 1.1.1
- Pax Runner - 1.1.0
- Pax Runner - 1.0.0
- Pax Runner - 0.20.0
- Pax Runner - 0.19.0
- Pax Runner - 0.18.0
- Pax Runner - 0.17.1
- Pax Runner - 0.17.0
- Pax Runner - 0.16.0
- Pax Runner - 0.15.0
- Pax Runner - 0.14.2
- Pax Runner - 0.14.1
- Pax Runner - 0.14.0
- Pax Runner - 0.13.0
- Pax Runner - 0.12.0
- Pax Runner - 0.11.0
- Pax Runner - 0.10.0
- Pax Runner - 0.9.0
- Pax Runner - 0.8.0
- Pax Runner - 0.7.2
- Pax Runner - 0.7.1
- Pax Runner - 0.7.0
- Pax Runner - 0.6.0
- Pax Runner - 0.5.6
- Pax Runner - 0.5.5
- Pax Runner - 0.5.4
- Pax Runner - 0.5.3
- Pax Runner - 0.5.2
- Pax Runner - 0.5.1
- Pax Runner - 0.5.0
- Pax Runner - 0.17.2


6 Comments
comments.show.hideJul 14, 2011
Anonymous
Where are the download links? The site complains about:
Unknown macro:
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resulting in missing links for downloading the contents. Also the link for the sources is not functioning...
Jul 19, 2011
Anonymous
Many of the download links in this site are not working. Anyone?
Jul 27, 2011
Anonymous
This is really frustrating. While pax runner and pax exam are excellent, docs links can be better maintained and it really offs you.
Oct 09, 2011
Anonymous
What's the point of all these releases it nobody can download them. I would think that this is a MAJOR issue.
Nov 15, 2011
Anonymous
Maybe try and sort out your download links guys? Seriously very very poor.
Nov 15, 2011
Anonymous
The "easy" way to do OSGi cannot even be (easily) downloaded..!