Jeff McAffer's blog

Jeff is a colleague from Eclipse who often has an interesting perspective. You may be interested in his new blog or the first post on provisioning changes in Eclipse.

Welcome to the blogosphere, Jeff!

Oracle TopLink being donated to Eclipse

BJ posted a really interesting development from EclipseCon. Oracle is donating a sophisticated persistence framework to Eclipse.

I can't tell from the FAQ whether the framework consists of 'pure' OSGi bundles or whether they make use of any Eclipse-specific features, but clearly the former would be ideal.

OSGi at EclipseCon

Next month's EclipseCon features an OSGi track for the first time.

One of my close colleagues, Tim Ellison, will be talking about Apache Harmony, including its use of OSGi.

Another close colleague, BJ Hargrave, is co-leading a seminar on Spring-OSGi integration.

BEA are presenting their experiences of using OSGi to underpin the microService Architecture, while JBoss are presenting on their thoughts for how they could use OSGi.

All in all, sounds fascinating...