Getting stated with OSGi and eclipse automated builds (PDE)

finally started to work on automating our OSGi based plugins/bundles ...

Main goal is to have some automated build that builds our OSGi bundles against a defined target platform.. as we don't use any eclipse specific stuff (apart from equinox) I figured we can (ab)use eclipse's pde to do the work..
not sure whether that's gonna work in the long run but its worth a shot..

Came across some nice 3 part series as a good introduction to OSGi and Spring DM:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2008/jw-03-osgi1.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2008/jw-04-osgi2.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2008/jw-06-osgi3.html


for more hands on to start my own ant-based build (using eclipse's pde for now) I stumbled across:
http://knol.google.com/k/luk-zapletal/automating-eclipse-pde-build/1as80wv4bdzca/4#Build_project
(first time I ever actually checked out a 'knol')

doesn't seem to be too difficult..

but then again, I am just starting on it..