Blog Posts

Things seem to be heating up around the compatibility between OSGi and JSR 277, in particular the different version numbering schemes. Peter Kriens, Alex Blewitt provide some good commentary for the OSGi scheme and Stanley Ho defends the proposed JSR 277 scheme. However, Hal Hildebrand, the Oracle OSGi guru, provides...

The Ganymede RC2 Packages are now available for testing. Ganymede is a short 3 weeks away, so the clock is ticking on testing out these packages. Also, thank you for all the feedback we have received on the new packaging site. There is still time for more comments but that...

Next week I will be traveling to Germany for two events: 1) the OSGi community event in Berlin and 2) a Marketing Stammtisch in Bensheim/Auerbach. The OSGi event has a great technical program and I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the people in the OSGi community. OSGi...

Hockey season is just about to finish, which mean Canadians are about to begin our second season: summer. Sys-con just published a pretty good interview with Mike Milinkovich to mark his 4th anniversary at the Foundation. Among discussions on Mike’s view of ‘Strategy as Ecology’ and ‘The Stackless Stack’, Mike...

In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed CIO.com is doing a great job highlighting and educating their readers on open source software. They just published the results of a reader survey about open source adoption in the enterprise which showed 53% are using open source today in their...

I just recently agreed to be a speaker at Joel Spolsky‘s Business of Software conference in September. I guess it is in some way returning a favor, as Joel gave a very memorable keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The talk is going to be focused on providing a practitioner’s guide to...

If you take a look at some of the recent reports generated from the usage data collector, you may notice that there are a lot of custom (i.e. not from eclipse.org) views, editors, and perspectives out there, but not so many custom commands. This is merely my own observation based...

Whenever I think of p2, I just can’t shake the image of the little dog in the stories we used to make up in French class in elementary school. “Pauvre Pitou. Il a sauté par la fenêtre…” But I digress… Today I did a little experiment with p2. I downloaded...

I’ve been hacking over the last couple of days on an update to the Understanding Layouts in SWT (the original is here). I’ve had my eye on updating this article for a while, but have been skittish about tackling it because of all the screenshots. Bug 221251 forced me to...

No not that p2 – P2 the movie. Given the discussion about our p2, I just couldn’t resist. I know the p2 team is working extremely hard to make p2 a killer feature. Making any change as significant as p2 will always strike fear in people, including me. However, one...