I'm very excited to announce that Bundlor 1.0.0.RC1 is now available. There have been numerous changes to Bundlor since the M6 release including additions to detection and warning criteria as well as improvements to the ANT and Maven configurations. This milestone marks feature-complete status for the 1.0.0 release. Baring any major issues, this candidate will Read more…

dm Server 2.0.0.M6 is now available and can be downloaded from here. This release follows quickly on the M5 release as we close in on the first 2.0.0 release candidate. This time we've focused very heavily on fixing outstanding defects and added just a handful of new features. Take a look at the M6 release Read more…

dm Server 2.0.0.M5 is now available and can be downloaded from here. We're getting towards the end of the 2.0.0 release cycle so most of the work in this milestone is focused on locking down the user interaction model. Take a look at the M5 release notes for the full details of what we've been Read more…

I'm pleased to announce that beginning with its newly released 1.0.0.M6 version, Bundlor now supports OSGi Blueprint Service files. As with the support for Spring-DM contexts, Bundlor scans for Blueprint Service configuration files in both the default location (OSGI-INF/blueprint/*.xml) and in locations specified with the custom Bundle-Blueprint manifest header. When these files are found, they Read more…

I'm pleased to announce a new screencast for SpringSource Slices. This screencast walks through the creation of the menu-bar sample application. It shows how a host can use a collection of slices to populate a menu bar dynamically without restarting and can be completely de-coupled from the knowledge of exactly what items might be in Read more…

Some of you may have noticed that in recent posts that the dm Server team has been referencing Git repository URLs. The team has been migrating all of its source code and I'm now pleased to announce that this migration is done. The list below contains the Git URLs for the code managed by the Read more…

Shortly after the introduction of SpringSource dm Server (Application Platform at the time), Thorsten Maus created a Maven plugin for creating PAR files. This was a great community contribution and we even used it in the Getting Started Guide for dm Server 1.0.x. As dm Server's 2.0 milestones have progressed we've been adding new functionality Read more…

I'm pleased to announce the 1.0.0.M1 release of SpringSource's OSGi Test Stubs.  These stubs offer a way to unit test complex OSGi Framework interactions without needing a full OSGi container. Package – Download Git – git://git.springsource.org/osgi-test-stubs/osgi-test-stubs.git The Problem As the dm Server team has been developing, we found that one of the biggest problem areas Read more…

In the dm Server 2.0.0.M1 release we added support for shared repositories. As a followup to this new functionality, we've added support for browsing those repositories via JMX. Connecting to a running dm Server instance with a JMX client now shows you a Repository group. Under this group, each configured repository (with the exception of Read more…

When managing and transforming as many bundles as are included in the the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository, it becomes very difficult to remember what packages are boot delegated, exported from the system bundle, or from other bundles in your system. This information is important because you probably don't want to import packages that are boot Read more…