I have created an app kit for building OSGi applications using Equinox with Bndtools at:

https://github.com/BryanHunt/bndtools-equinox-app-kit

The app kit is split across several branches so that you may choose the content that best suits your application.  Each main branch has a corresponding examples branch that contains a working example.  You will find launchers in the dev project for the base framework, and in the example projects for running the examples.

Main Branches

• master : bare bones OSGi with a working console
• ds : master + declarative services
• web : ds + servlets
• rest : web + JAX-RS
• mongo-rest : rest + MongoDB

Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to get started with OSGi.