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A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2457 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 1388 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

What is a Modular Application Anyway?

What does the term application mean in the context of modular software development (and OSGi in particular). It seems to me that the concept of an application...

0 replies - 911 views - 08/28/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Connecting The Clouds: Integrating Google App Engine for Java with Force.com

In this session we will outline how to connect the Salesforce SOAP Web Services API to Google App Engine for Java. The project includes an open source Web...

0 replies - 811 views - 07/14/09 by Masoud Kalali in Videos

The Two Faces of Modularity & OSGi

There are two aspects to OSGi - the OSGi runtime model and the OSGi development model. Today, emphasis is on the runtime model. But eventually, the importance...

2 replies - 2552 views - 06/24/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Making OSGi Easier

While there are a ton of benefits to be gained from adopting OSGi, it’s not a trivial task to migrate your existing code. Class loader issues can bite you...

5 replies - 3327 views - 06/04/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Pax Runner Profiles and Distributed OSGi

Last week we looked at how Pax Runner makes simple work of starting an OSGi framework (whichever one you want) and loading it up with a selection of bundles....

1 replies - 2661 views - 05/05/09 by Craig Walls in Articles

Why is OSGi Important?

I’ve seen a number of blog posts and tweets lately asking some version of the question Why is OSGi important? If you’re one of the many people looking...

8 replies - 7359 views - 05/05/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles

Nobody is Talking About The Whiteboard Pattern - Does OSGi Violate "Separation of Concerns"

I have known OSGi since Version 2 and started using it since Version 3. What made me a believer was the Service Oriented Programming model and the positive...

2 replies - 4863 views - 05/01/09 by peterhuber in News

An Introduction To SonarJ for Eclipse

SonarJ is a plug-in for Eclipse that helps you validate your code against a software architecture, using static analysis. Malai met the founder of the company...

0 replies - 3150 views - 04/23/09 by Annamalai Chock... in Articles

A Dozen OSGi Myths and Misconceptions

Anybody who knows me or has been following me lately knows that I have an interest in OSGi. And I'm not alone--there has a lot of buzz about OSGi in the past...

8 replies - 8060 views - 04/14/09 by Craig Walls in Articles

Enterprise OSGi - "Not List"

I spend a lot of time talking about what enterprise OSGi is, but I always get a lot of questions, particularly about distributed OSGi. I thought it might help...

0 replies - 1915 views - 04/14/09 by enewc in News

The Nuts, Bolts and Springs of Distributed OSGi Applications

Using Spring with OSGi is a revolution in the application server environment. Spring gives you flexibility, OSGi gives you dynamicity, but complexity can...

0 replies - 6546 views - 12/30/08 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Just In Time MapReduce with OSGi

A couple of years ago I was thrown into a team lead role where I was responsible for distributing workload across a number of developers. During the first few...

0 replies - 5537 views - 12/24/08 by ggalang in Articles

2008: A Developer's Retrospective

 I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...

3 replies - 6289 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles