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Remote OSGi Declarative Services

Aug 4, 2009

There is a very cool new tutorial by Bryan Hunt for using ECF’s implementation of the OSGi Distributed OSGi spec (RFC 119) and OSGi Declarative Services (DS) together to do remote declarative …

Eclipse e4 0.9 Alpha Release

Aug 3, 2009

Last week, the Eclipse e4 project had its alpha release. What’s e4? It’s simply the next generation of the Eclipse platform. The Eclipse platform team has learned a lot of lessons since the Eclipse …

REST, the OSGi and ECF way

Jul 29, 2009

A few months ago I introduced you to REST. Since then my Google Summer of Code project, REST abstraction for ECF, has been accepted and a lot of work has been done. Scott Lewis and I wanted to make …

Gradients and Rounded Borders in RAP

Jul 28, 2009

We try hard to enable a “sexy” look and feel for Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) applications. However, without rounded borders and gradients you can hardly create a website that look modern. Take this …

Teamwork, Innovation and Diversity

Jul 28, 2009

I was really impressed with this article from today’s NY Times: Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork I was particularly fond of this quote: The biggest lesson learned, according to members …

OSGi, Dynamics and Eclipse

Jul 23, 2009

I often hear this question… “Why does Eclipse prompt me to restart if it’s a dynamic OSGi-based application?” As a user, you’re presented with a few choices: no, apply changes (I’m feeling lucky) or …