There are two New Project Wizards available within Eclipse that allow for creating new OSGi bundle and PAR projects. The projects created by the wizards are deployable to the integrated Application Platform instance without requiring any additional steps.

Those wizards create the required MANIFEST.MF file and appropriate manifest headers. The New PAR Project wizard also creates a file called par.xml in the root of the PAR project that allows users to manage the bundles contained in the PAR.

	Note
	The par.xml file is only required for tooling to keep track of the depending projects. It is not required by the Application Platform at runtime.

To migrate an existing Java Project to be used with the Application Platform, the tooling provides a migration action that adds the required tooling meta data to the project. The migration will not change your project's source layout.

Use the context menu action of a project in the Package or Project Explorer and select "Spring Tools → Convert to OSGi bundle project".