GitHub API for querying users & repositories In this article, we will look how we used the GitHub API for querying users and repositories of an organization. In particular, we will look at how promises were combined to make the data retrieval easier. Querying GitHub is relatively easy with the GitHub API. The GitHub API is REST based and provides access to your Activity, Gists, Issues, Organizations,...
Read MoreToday we are proud to release the OSGi JAX-RS Connector 4.0. A lot has happened since the 3.3 release back in March 2014. This post will give you an overview of the new and noteworthy things included in the 4.0 release. We updated the underlying Jersey library to 2.8 which was released back in April. This update is one of the main reasons we are doing...
Read MoreToday we are proud to release the OSGi JAX-RS Connector 3.2. A lot has happened since the 3.1 release back in October 2013. This post will give you an overview of the new and noteworthy things included in the 3.2 release. We upgraded the underlying Jersey library to 2.5 which was released back in December. We also included the bundles needed for multipart formdata requests. Bryan Hunt...
Read MoreEarlier this year I've introduced Minimal JSON, a slim and fast Java library for reading and writing JSON. In contrast to object mappers such as Gson or Jackson, Minimal JSON does not more than reading a JSON text into a memory-efficient Java representation that can be accessed, modified and serialized to JSON again. You can see some code examples on the project page. We're using this...
Read MoreEarlier this year in June we released the 3.0 version of the OSGi JAX-RS Connector together with JAX-RS 2.0. Since then a lot has happened in the project and we decided to do a 3.1 release. Below are the important features and changes that made it into 3.0 and 3.1. If you're not familiar with the connector, these articles will get you started: Introduction, Consuming...
Read MoreGithub has announced a Series A round of venture funding today. They are taking 100 million USD from Andreessen Horowitz - and at least the first part of the name should be familiar to software developers. The announcement is a surprise as Github has always refrained from taking venture money. No surprise is their goal of making Github an essential infrastructure component for all software development....
Read MoreProbably one of RAP’s best known features is its single-sourcing capabilities. Some time ago we created a guide on Single-Sourcing RCP and RAP applications. The guide recommended a technique where a facade and fragments were used to invoke the RCP or RAP implementation during runtime. With this post I want to show you how to achieve the same the OSGi way. For single-sourcing a RAP or...
Read MoreI guess a lot of people would agree that github is the current kick-ass platform for developing software. Many platforms showed up fast and with the same speed they disappeared. Github is different. It's also genuinely innovative. For several months I use github to share small projects (widgets, tools, small plug-ins). When I write a blog about something new I always link the associated github...
Read MoreIf you use Eclipse to develop OSGi based applications you may use the OSGi Launcher provided by the PDE Tooling. It's cool tooling because it gives you full control over the OSGi instance to be launched. You can choose the OSGi framework (e.g. Equinox or Felix), select the bundles to install and much more. But this launcher has one drawback that hurts every time I run...
Read MoreIf this is not the first post by me that you’re reading, you may know that I try to blog regularly. Previously, I had 2 or 3 private blogs which, you also might know, were not that successful ;). Since I started at EclipseSource, I publish on our company blog. Anyway, I started my first blog 5 years ago and used some horrible, long forgotten...
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