Virgo 3.6.0.M01 has been released and it contains a new web admin console. While visually it appears very similar to the existing web console it has some new features and under the covers a lot has changed. New Features The OSGi explorer has been replaced with a graphical view that shows both the service and [...]
Gemini Management is an implementation of the OSGi Enterprise JMX specification. The 2.0.x line moves up to version 5.0 of the specification with several improvements and a new MBean. Gemini Management now includes and re-exports the ‘org.osgi.jmx‘ packages from the 5.0 specification meaning you don’t need to separately include the APIs in your runtime. This [...]
Gemini Management is a set of JMX MBeans for managing your OSGi runtime. We released the first Milestone last week and will hopefully do a full release in the near future. Gemini Management implements the JMX Specification Version 1.0 of the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise Specification, Version 4.2, section 124. To learn more about Gemini [...]
The second Release Candidate of Virgo 3.0 (Maya) is available for download. See the release notes for details. RC2 has minor updates from RC1. The documentation has been finished and is now also frozen for release. The version of Equinox has been updated to the stable Indigo version. The separate Snaps download has also moved [...]
Several people have asked about us providing a packaging of Virgo that includes the OSGi HttpService. We don’t have any plans to do so because it’s so easy to extend Virgo with extra function yourself. I’m using the Equinox HttpService as the desired extra function here but the same approach applies no matter what you [...]
Between moving house and going on a long holiday my personal projects went a little quiet but I’ve been at the Eclipse Summit in Europe in Ludwigsberg this week so I thought I’d write up my thoughts. This was my first ‘big’ Eclipse event, on the one hand it’s nice to have so many knowledgeable [...]
I went to Sofia to present at an Eclipse Demo Camp and seems it went down well with at least one of the attendees. http://javamissionary.blogspot.com/2010/06/eclipse-democamp-2010.html. The ‘young’ comment made me chuckle. It’s all well and good looking youthful but it’s a pain when you want some gravitas. I’m sure I’ll be out and about talking [...]
The SpringSource Tools Suite (STS) has offered support for OSGi development for a long time, IntelliJ also has good support and even better specific support for dm Server was added in May. Now NetBeans has released version 6.9 with a lot of new OSGi related features. It’s really encouraging to see all the major IDEs [...]
At the beginning of the year I took a few days to review a book about Information Architecture (IA). I’m certainly not a technical reviewer having no experience of IA but reading the drafts in enough detail to be useful to the author was an enjoyable experience. I picked up a lot more than I [...]
Yesterday I started the milestone release of Virgo 2.1.0.M01 copying round the Eclipse mirror servers. It’s really good to see it go and I’m looking forward to seeing the response later today. The Virgo Kernel is also available along with the Web Server and allows users to build customised server types.