If 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 MoreToday I did a talk at the EclipseCon 2011 which was entitled "Eclipse Runtime out-of-the-box". With this talk I introduced the EclipseRTP project. So, if you missed it here are the slides ;) Eclipse Runtime out-of-the-box, EclipseCon 2011 View more presentations from Holger Staudacher ...
Read MoreOver the last few days I've read many blogs from folks who are speaking at EclipseCon next week in Santa Clara. Everytime I find it really interesting to hear about the ideas behind the talks. So, with this post I want to show you what you can expect from the EclipseSource folks at EclipseCon. First we'll have a chance to meet every morning. EclipseSource is the...
Read MoreYesterday Amazon launched a new service called AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It's basically a Tomcat hosting service. You can upload your WAR files via a web interface, to an instance of a Linux cloud image pre-configured with Tomcat. This is from the official Amazon description: AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for you to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply...
Read MoreA few weeks ago I told you about the Eclipse RTP project. Since then some things happened that I want to share with you. First of all, we made it to the creation review. The review is scheduled for January 12-19. The community gathering period was very successful. We reached 10 interested parties and 7 initial committers from three different companies. In this article, I'd like to focus...
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