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OSGi Execution Environment Validation
Execution Environments (EE) are a neat concept within OSGi, however, things can become complicated when developing against multiple EEs. For a real world example of what I mean, this weeks integration...
e4 0.9 M2 Released!
It’s great to see a new milestone of e4 released (new and noteworthy)! The major new and noteworthy item in my opinion is that XWT was included for the first time in e4: What is XWT? XWT is a...
ECF and RFC 119 - A rose by any other name...
ECF is finishing up it’s implementation of RFC 119 (distributed OSGi) for release with Galileo (aka ECF 3.0). Over beers at EclipseCon, Ian Skerrett suggested to me that we needed a name for...
Looking for students, looking for ideas
As everyone should now know, the application process for Google Summer of Code is well underway. Students are actively putting together their proposals and mentors are busy giving feedback and helping...
OSGi Tool Summit Recap
Last Friday, March 27th, Jeff McAffer and I attended the OSGi Tool Summit graciously hosted by LinkedIn: There were many topics discussed, here are the big ones in my opinion: Repositories Now that we...
Replacing the Perspective-Switcher in RCP apps
For simple RCP Applications the Perspective-Switcher widget that ships with Eclipse is overloaded and cumbersome to use. We are going to get rid of it and replace it with an equivalent menu and/or...