Mind the Gap

The TSS thread on Virgo and whether or not OSGi is ready for mainstream enterprise application development contains some misconceptions. Fi...

The recent SD Times article on Virgo paints an overly bleak picture of the problems of building an OSGi application. Build certainly compli...

The news just broke. SpringSource are donating the dm Server code base to eclipse.org as part of the EclipseRT umbrella project. This should...

As noted previously, WebSphere Application Server's alpha support for OSGi applications is similar to that of SpringSource dm Server. N...

The recently announced alpha driver of IBM WebSphere Application Server v7 support for OSGi applications is covered in a brief dzone interv...

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...