Mind the Gap

I listened to most of the JavaPosse interview with Mark Reinhold and Alex Buckley about Project Jigsaw and JSR 294. It's nice to see som...

I've noticed a few people are integrating OSGi and Scala. In particular Heiko Seeberger is building OSGi bundles for the Scala language...

I've recently been re-organising the internals of the SpringSource dm Kernel so that it can be extended to provide structured install ar...

I recently wrote some utility code which we'll be using to process bundle manifests, typically to map header names to typed values. It w...

As in Rob's blog , we recently shipped the first milestone of dm Server v2.0. Apart from some new function, this marks an opening up of ...

I wonder if the JCP rules allow JDK 7 to be called "Java"? Sun appears to think so since the JDK 7 page is entitled "jdk7: ...

JSR 294 seems to be underway again. BJ Hargrave describes an EG discussion of visibility and access control which I found enlightening.

Mark Reinhold recently announced Project Jigsaw for modularising the JDK. Could this be a step towards the dream solution ? I can hope. Mea...

I'm in the middle of a fairly broad refactoring of the internals of the SpringSource dm Server to introduce an interface to some of the...

Here's the image from the T-shirts that were given away at JavaOne. Click the image to enlarge it.

Today the SpringSource Application Platform shipped its first beta release. Version 1.0 is essentially a combination of Spring, OSGi and To...

Bryan Atsatt describes a plausible way forward for JSR 277. I agree with his reasoning, although OSGi is not only the de facto standard for...

My favourite sunbug is now on the list of the Top 25 RFEs (Requests for Enhancement).

Sunbug 6650394 is coming along nicely - both in terms of votes and supportive comments. At the time of writing, it has 99 votes, so thank y...

Sun has kindly raised sunbug 6650394 on my behalf to track the module system interoperation issue for JSR 277. Please consider voting for t...

The Early Draft Review of JSR 294 is now complete. Little seems to have changed since when I left the Expert Group. The main weakness from m...

A couple of weeks in the new job and I work for a different company! Well almost - Interface21 has been renamed to SpringSource to strengthe...

I'm gradually noticing what's different about working in a small company. For one thing, there are very few processes, other than ...

Today I start work for Interface21 in Southampton. After more than a month of gardening leave, or more accurately decorating leave, I can...

Java preserves type-safety when loading classes, even if there are buggy or malicious custom class loaders present. This is important as wit...