Mind the Gap

After opening up the Enterprise Bundle Repository build system, I've added more sample  bundlor templates along with Ant/Ivy build fil...

The OSGi Alliance has made an early draft of some RFCs available. This includes the subsystems RFC 152 I blogged about  earlier : see pages...

Sometime Eclipse fails to work as expected. The following 'dances', in increasing order of desperation, may help. Remember to main...

Infor have kindly made available a presentation on how their ION integration product is based on the Virgo kernel. They migrated from Equi...

The extender pattern has become popular in recent years and has even been utilised in OSGi standards such as the Blueprint service and the ...

A public draft(*) of the OSGi subsystems RFC (152) should soon emerge from the OSGi Alliance. A subsystem is a multi-bundle application, not...

Virgo 3.0 and Gemini Web 2.0, collectively known as the Maya release, are available for download and download , respectively. The team o...

I'm just been tryout out Hristo Iliev's support for Virgo in CloudFoundry, described on his blog . The VM took a few hours to downlo...

The first Release Candidate of Virgo 3.0 (Maya) is available for download . See the release notes for details. RC1 finally brings the sna...

Virgo committer Borislav Kapukaranov has written an interesting blog entitled "RT meets p2" . Here he gives some of the background...

Milestone 6 of the Virgo Maya (3.0) release is available for download . This milestone marks the feature freeze of Maya, so we'll be wo...

The first milestone of the Virgo IDE tooling is available. See the wiki for instructions . It should provide approximately the same level of...

I recently questioned one of the Jigsaw requirements on the jigsaw-dev mailing list. I agree with the general direction for interoperabili...

The feature to provision Virgo using p2 is taking a while to finalise. Also, it changes the directory layout of Virgo and so will need some ...

Milestone 5 of Virgo 3.0.0 is available for  download . This is an important milestone which adds significant functional enhancements, upgra...

Previously I described how Virgo used OSGi framework hooks to implement a directed graph, or digraph , of isolated groups of bundles known ...

We'd like to enable the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository to turn into a shared community resource. As a first, small step in ...

Thanks to everyone who responded to the recent Eclipse Virgo and SpringSource dm Server survey. The results make interesting reading. Clos...

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...