Equinox

OSGI R4.2 (thus Equinox 3.5) comes (well, will come, since the spec. is not final yet) with a new simple and handy utility: the org.osgi.framework.FrameworkUtil.getBundle(Class) static method, which allows to retrieve the bundle a given class belongs to. More specifically, this method will give you the bundle who loaded the...

Last year’s Eclipse release (Ganymede) came with a new provisioning platform called p2. For years, Eclipse has been shipped along with a component called the “Update Manager”, which allowed users to easily update their Eclipse installations. Nevertheless, year after year, and especially when Eclipse 3.0 came out, it has become...

En guise d’avant-goût au livre “ Equinox and OSGi: The Power Behind Eclipse“, une fiche de référence sur OSGi et son implémentation de référence Equinox a été concoctée par Jeff McAffer et mise à disposition sur le site DZone. Attention , il faut un compte pour pouvoir télécharger le PDF...

The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) and Image Utilities. I’ll defer discussion of Image Utilities for another day… As the name suggests, EBERT is an application that...

Lars Vogel is quickly becoming one of our most prolific contributors. His latest entry teaches the reader how to create that first bundle and gently introduces the terminology and technology around OSGi and Equinox. Send comments about the article directly to Lars (his email address is on the article).

According to this announcement, they are all building their next generation Java server technology on OSGi. If I am not mistaken, basically 95%+ of the Java server market is now based on OSGi. That is a pretty compelling statement on the importance of OSGi. Of course Equinox is a pretty...

I blogged a while back about the potential use of a bus for delivering property change notifications in place of the very common observer pattern. A reader commented that the exact service I need to implement that sort of thing is already available in the form of the OSGi Event...

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...

Well… mostly. The code for the Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (you may have noticed that I’ve changed what the ‘T’ stands for) has been checked into CVS per the approval of CQ 2310 and subject to the constraints of the parallel IP process. I don’t consider this a complete...

Radoslav has taken it upon himself to get EBERT running on Sprint Titan (based on eRCP). How cool is that? Let me answer that for you: very cool. See some screenshots here. I’m looking forward to Radoslav’s contributions to the project.