Mind the Gap

See this if you are interested in doing some Virgo development. Special thanks go to the Eclipse IP team, especially Barb and Sharon, for...

I just finished entering the main CQs (Contribution Questionnaires) for Virgo. The corresponding tracking bugs, which are visible to everyon...

Eclipse Virgo View more presentations from glynnormington .

EclipseCon has been a great conference - on a par with the Spring conferences for enthusiasm and quality of talks etc. There was an enthusia...

Eclipse Virgo . What more can I say, other than "Thanks Chris"?

EclipseCon starts in next week and there are plenty of sessions relevant to Virgo . I'm doing the main Virgo talk and there's a ...

Richard Hall tells me Felix interprets optional imports as "strong", to use my  earlier  term. I believe there is enough latitude ...

At last we have a proof , thanks to Robert Dunne, that the OSGi R4 resolution problem is NP-Complete . He showed that it is possible to repr...

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.