Archive of category Planet OSGi

Earlier this week I ordered a Raspberry Pi and it arrived today. For those of you who haven’t heard of the Raspberry Pi, it’s a low cost computer that includes HDMI (1080p) output, USB, Ethernet, an ARM processor (700Mhz) and 512Mb (or 256Mb) of RAM. The entire computer is the size of a credit card [...]

EclipseCon 2013 Starts next week, and from my twitter feed it seems the Eclipse community has already started their pilgrimage to Boston. While many people know Eclipse as a great IDE, did you know Eclipse also provides a powerful software stack to build enterprise applications on? From Modularity to Java Persistence to a world class Webserver, Eclipse [...]

Only two weeks left until EclipseCon! I’m sure everyone’s excited to see the new location, make new and meet old friends. This year we have plenty of talks ranging from runtime over mobile to modeling. Pick your choices! Highly Interactive Mobile Apps with RAP (J. Böhme López, H. Staudacher): Smartphones and Tablets have become ubiquitous. The [...]

Over the last years I have seen many OSGi project, and while I am pretty happy with most of them there is a tendency to oversized launch configurations. Keeping the launch configs lean is not easy because the automatic dependency resolver can not always pick the smallest set possible. And maybe even worse it is [...]

EclipseCon 2013 is fast approaching. This year EclipseCon is on the east coast in Boston, MA from March 25-28th. EclipseCon brings together experts from dozens of Eclipse projects along with leaders from the ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and OSGi communities. I’m really excited about this years program. Here are 5 talks that I can’t wait [...]

This post explains how to track changes in the lifecycle state of OSGi bundles, using two different techniques: an OSGi BundleListener and an Eclipse BundleWatcher.

There’s good news for our OSGi JAX-RS Connector. We’ve added a consumer implementation that gives you the opportunity to reuse your @Path/@Provider interfaces to consume REST services in a generic way. Over the last few weeks I’d used this consumer a lot and decided that it should go into this release of the connector. So, [...]

Recently I wanted to use the good old ServiceTracker to get access to OSGi services registered under a specific interface and matching a given filter. I was surprised to discover that there is no constructor for the ServiceTracker that allows the specification of a class name and a filter. A quick look into the OSGi [...]

I recently introduced you to the JAX-RS Consumer. If you’ve read that post you might remember that I promised to write about the OSGi integration of the consumer. This is the topic of this short post. As you might know, a while ago I created the OSGI-JAX-RS connector. This connector gives you the opportunity to [...]