Mind the Gap

Early in my career at SpringSource, my colleagues presented me a T-shirt with "CICS does that!" printed on the front. However, nob...

The latest update of Java broke jps and jconsole when Java is launched specifying "-Djava.io.tmpdir" with a value of anything othe...

Congratulations to Felix on producing some really nice diagnostics for uses conflicts , and thanks to Neil Bartlett for his blog on the sub...

It was great to see several enterprise OSGi runtimes in action at EclipseCon. Readers of this blog will be familiar with Eclipse Virgo , s...

Sometimes I need to list all the commits on a branch. I found the following command does the trick, even after I have merged from master int...

I would be grateful if users of Virgo and SpringSource dm Server would take a short, anonymous  survey  to help us in our planning. Should t...

A recent Oracle blog stated: Also presented were Eclipse projects, that Oracle engineers are contributing to: Gemini, Virgo, Sapphire and ...

As I anticipate the start of EclipseCon 2011 later today, I'm reflecting on the current state of the Eclipse Virgo, Gemini, and Libra pr...

I regularly come across the situation where someone needs to import additional packages into a 3rd party OSGi bundle. Sometimes this is beca...

Milestone 3 of Virgo 3.0 is available for download . Apart from several bug fixes, this milestone includes a contribution from Tom Watson wh...

A number of popular open source libraries, particularly persistence providers, use thread context class loading to load application types. T...

Some programs have a clear design and coding new features is quick and easy. Other programs are a patchwork quilt of barely comprehensible f...

A number of groups are discovering that the Virgo Kernel is a really useful OSGi runtime. For instance the Rich Ajax Platform project have d...

The Mule team have blogged about their decision not to adopt OSGi. The decision seems reasonable: OSGi isn't a panacea and I guess the ...

Jump to Hyperspace, courtesy of Steve Jurvetson Eclipse Virgo has shipped its first release after several months of work to contribute i...

Since the Eclipse Virgo web site is seeing more new visitors than ever, it seemed like a good time to summarise the benefits of Virgo. Ess...

I'm sitting in the OSGi DevCon where a panel are discussing what needs to change in OSGi. Several points are coming up that are relevant...

Virgo seems to be finding its way into the scientific community. A research hospital and a networking research group already use Virgo heavi...

Wolfgang Schell recently released an OSGi plugin for Grails . This runs on Virgo but apparently uses Spring DM's web extender rather tha...

Owen Ou blogged about deploying RAP (Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform) on an OSGi based server like Virgo. He says it's extremely easy, whic...