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<h1>Installation and Use</h1>
<p>Currently Libra supports only Eclipse Indigo. As a prerequisite
you need to installEclipse IDE for Java EE Developers and Libra from
this update site The update site contains:
<ul>
<li><b>OSGi Facet Feature that introduces:</b>
<ul>
<li>A new facet "OSGi Bundle" for Dynamic Web, JPA and Utility
projects.</li>
<li>Wizard for converting WTP standard projects to OSGi
Enterprise bundle projects:
<ul>
<li>Dynamic Web projects to Web Application Bundle projects</li>
<li>JPA projects to Persistent Bundle projects</li>
<li>Utility projects and simple Java projects to OSGi Bundle
projects</li>
</ul>
Both options modify project's MANIFEST.MF in order to become a valid
OSGi bundle.</li>
</ul>
The facet may be enabled during project creation or after that from
Properties page of the project. The wizard is available from project's
context menu <b>Configure &gt Convert to OSGi Bundle Projects...</b>
<p><b>Note</b> that you may need to adjust your target
platform accordingly.</p>
</li>
<li><b>WAR Products Core Feature which provides</b> <a
href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/RAP/Equinox_WAR_products">WAR
deployment for Equinox based applications</a></li>
</ul>
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