Archive for the 'Equinox' Category
Eclipse Riena Project
This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more functional and performant than light [...]
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Server-Side Eclipse - the dynamic server platform based on OSGi
Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons…
This afternoon, I’m attending “Server-Side Eclipse - the dynamic server platform based on OSGi” presented by Jochen [...]
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Building Secure OSGi Applications
I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away from this tutorial for me is [...]
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Unit tests with a “Real” Server
Normally, I like to make my unit tests so that they do not depend on external things running. As a general rule, I try to write tests that prove that the logic in my code works. While I care that communication between my application and, say, a database or application server works, it’s not my [...]
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Eclipse and Java EE Development
I’ve managed to pick up some extra responsibilities for the upcoming JavaPolis 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. In addition to the talk on Mylyn that I’ve been planning to do for a while now, I’ve recently been coerced (in a relatively nice way) into delivering a three hour “IDEs in Day” slot. “Three hours of [...]
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Jeff McAffer Discusses OSGi and Equinox
In this podcast, Jeff McAffer, Eclipse Equinox Project Lead, discusses Eclipse membership in the OSGi Alliance, the factors motivating the adoption of OSGi as the component model for Eclipse, the cool places that OSGi turns up, and the rosy future of OSGi and Equinox.
Unfortunately, the recording quality of this podcast isn’t as high as I’d [...]
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