The Celix Shell provides a service interface which can be used to interact with the Celix framework. Note that it does not offer a user interface. This modular approach enables having multiple frontends, e.g. textual or graphical.
While the shell can be extended with additional commands by other bundles, it already offers some built in commands:
lb list bundles
install install additional bundle
uninstall uninstall bundles
update update bundles
start start bundle
stop stop bundle
help displays available commands
inspect inspect service and components
log print log
Further information about a command can be retrieved by using help combined with the command.
BUILD_SHELL=ON