It has finally arrived. SpringOne which I have been anticipating for over a month is finally here and it couldn’t have come sooner. I need one more blast of warm sunny weather before the hibernation months of winter. My day started at 3:30 am, well actually 4:00 am as I managed to roll out of bed. But before long I was sitting on the plane to St. Louis going over the conference schedule doing my first round of eliminations. This is the easy one. I knock out all the sessions that I have absolutely no interest in going. The ones that even the temptation of free beer cannot get me to go to. You get the idea. Even with an 8 track schedule there wasn’t a lot I could eliminate. But I had started the process. Once in St. Louis I had a 4 hour stop-over. » Read more: Musings of a SpringOne 2009 Attendee – Day 1
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October 20th, 2009Hands-on OSGi and Modular Web Applications – Part I – Toes First
October 19th, 2009A Brief Introduction
This is the first in a series of blog posts that will attempt to demystify OSGi and demonstrate how it enables the creation of modular web applications. We will explore various aspects of the technology along with the challenges of using this technology. I encourage you to join in the discussion by posting any comments about your own experiences or challenges you have faced developing OSGi applications. We start with the assumption that we understand what OSGi is and the specific modularity problem it tries to solve. Here are some resources you can visit to read up on this.
- http://neilbartlett.name/blog/2008/06/06/what-is-osgi-for/ – this one talks about the problem space
- http://www.infoq.com/interviews/osgi-adrian-colyer – this one brings Spring and OSGi together
Turn on the ignition
Lets get started. This first post will show you how to launch an OSGi framework and how you can interact with it. You will first need to have a JDK installed. I recommend the Sun JDK. You then need an OSGi implementation. » Read more: Hands-on OSGi and Modular Web Applications – Part I – Toes First
