Installing and starting bundles in OSGI on windows

In most tutorials, you can find that similar to the following command for installing new bundles should work:

osgi>install file:c:\temp\bundles\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.ds.jar

But when I tried this, I encountered the error: gogo: BundleException: An error occurred trying to read the bundle

So in such case, the following change helped me:
osgi>install file:c:///Temp//bundles//plugins//org.eclipse.equinox.ds.jar

Original command will work on Linux system.

Running OSGI console

Necessary plugins to run console for org.eclipse.osgi_<version>.jar:

Since equinox 3.8, following bundles are needed to be loaded for running osgi console:

• org.apache.felix.gogo.command_0.8.0v<version>.jar
• org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime_0.8.0v<version>.jar
• org.apache.felix.gogo.shell_0.8.0v<version>.jar
• org.eclipse.equinox.console_1.0.0v<version>.jar

It is enough to use configuration file for OSGI:

• copy files mentioned above from your eclipse installation/plugins folder to the folder with osgi bundle
• create file "configuration\config.ini" in the folder where the osgi JAR file is placed
• insert following context to the file (replace file names with the real names or rename jar files):

osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.console.jar@start,org.apache.felix.gogo.command.jar@start,org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.jar@start,org.apache.felix.gogo.shell.jar@start

Now you can test the OSGI console with:

•  java -jar org.eclipse.osgi_<version>.jar -console

Sources:
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not find bundle: org.eclipse.equinox.console