Mind the Gap

On this topic , Danny Coward recently referred to a limited form of operator overloading specifically for BigDecimal. Good to know this is ...

Eric Newcomer says he's enjoyed working in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. From my experience of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group,...

The last administrative hurdle for JSR 291 has been cleared and the spec., RI, and TCK are now available, either via the JCP site or direct...

The JCP awards brightened up a wet Monday morning. The Apache Software Foundation got the "Member of the Year" (!) award for its c...

Things have moved on somewhat since March , so I thought an update would be helpful. Let's recap first. JSR 277 is trying to create a s...

IBM launched Project Zero on Friday. The aim is to provide simpler ways to build web applications using an approach termed Community-Driven...

Google sometimes coughs up unexpected stuff, like this which could almost be talking about JSR 291 and JSR 277. :-)

Coté's coverage of Eclipse Europa expresses a view on OSGi and JSR 277.

One of the key differences between JSR 291 and JSR 277 is the way in which module dependencies are represented, satisfied, and managed. Both...

In the comparison of JSR 277 and JSR 291 features, I alluded to the fact that the module-superpackage relationship is a difference, but And...

I just ran across a video where James Governor interviews Jeet Kaul, the VP of developer products and programmes for Sun Microsystems. If y...

In the comparison of JSR 277 and JSR 291 features, I caused some confusion by saying the default export granularity was 'class' fo...

A number of people have expressed an interest in the similaries and differences between these JSRs, so this post compares the features of th...

The PMO acknowledged receipt of the Final Release materials I sent them a couple of days ago, so at least their email system worked this ti...

"But I thought JSR 291 had already gone final?", I hear you say. Nope: it passed the Final Approval Ballot a few weeks ago, but i...

This news has been around for a few days, but I heard it first from the JavaPosse . Red Hat has forked OpenJDK and plans to fill the encumb...

You may like to know there is a public observer list for JSR 277 and one for JSR 294 too, both with publicly visible archives. This is not...

The OSGi community event in Munich is approaching fast. I can't make it, but I know there will be good speakers including BJ Hargrave, ...

Just dipped into one or two segments of Adrian Colyer's InfoQ video interview on Spring & OSGi . There are bookmarks for anyone else...

Neil Bartlett has published another excellent OSGi tutorial in his EclipseZone series , this time introducing Declarative Services. A must f...