BND is a nice build tool but in some cases it makes actually trivial things, seem impossible or at least not really obvious. Doing RELEASE and SNAPSHOT Builds is one one if these things. Thus, here is a quick howto on how this can be done. By default OSGi uses Semantic Versions like 2.6.122.20191126120000. The […]
The Eclipse Remote Application Platform is an Eclipse project for enabling RCP application for the web or mobile usage. It can be used in OSGi or Servlet containers such as JEE. There is a good tooling based on the Eclipse tooling. We got a request from a customer, if it is in general possible to […]
Part 1: What can go wrong, will go wrong! Over the years we have been part of a couple of migration efforts to a more modern infrastructure and architecture. We have seen the good, the bad and the ugly side such projects bring with them. All of them could be described as from monolith to […]
We want to share a small study we made when trying to optimize the queue policy for a messaging system. We wanted to find an optimal configuration for a messaging system in terms of buffer size, number of threads and queue blocking policy, or at least to get a feeling of which variables come into […]
About one and a half years ago we switched all our projects from using PDE together with Maven Tycho to bnd. The increase in development speed we reached was immense. Additionally bnd automatically pushed us towards writing better OSGi software. Over the time we experienced a lot of fallacies PDE unknowingly lead us to. One […]
Last week we had a talk at the EclipseCon Europe 2018 in Ludwigsburg, presenting one of our OpenSource projects. It is called Gecko EMF and available here: https://gitlab.com/gecko.io/geckoEMF The Slides for the talk can be found here: EMF and OSGi What is Gecko EMF? It is an addition to EMF that makes it possible to […]
A while back, we reactivated our Nexus and wanted to use bnd to release to an OBR and an the Nexus at the same time. As usual, we have an automated build handled by jenkins, which does a snapshot build from our develop branch and a release build from changes to the master branch. With […]
Recently, I wanted to build an OSGi application that should run on my RaspberryPi. So I wanted an easy way to test this application on the Pi. After some research I found the possibility to use a remote laucher in bnd. There are two parts necessary for that: the remote agent the local launcher Configure […]
