What the OSGi Web Container means for dm Server
Following my previous entry many people have been asking about the impact that the move to the OSGi Web Container will have on dm Server. The most common questions being asked are: What is being added? What is staying the same? What is changing? How do I keep up to date? I'll address each of Read more…
Introduction to the OSGi Web Container
Updated: added version control instructions for Git. For the last few months I've been working with Subbarao Meduri, Graham Charters, Hal Hildebrand and others from the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group on the RFC66 Web Container specification. The Web Container specification defines how WAR files can be deployed on an OSGi service platform in a standard Read more…
dm Server 2.0 M2
dm Server 2.0.0.M2 has been released, and is now available for download. In the two sprints since 2.0.0.M1, we've made significant progress towards the final release, both in terms of new features, and in defect fixes. Take a look at the M2 release notes if you're interested in seeing everything that we've been working on. Read more…
Bundlor Version Expansion and Property Substitution
Introduction Recently the M3 milestone of Bundlor has been released (Forum Anouncement). This milestone adds support for Property Substitution and Version Expansion. This blog post explains how to work with these new features to improve the quality of generated Manifests. Property Substitution Bundlor can now be used to substitute any property value into your Manifest Read more…
SpringSource Tool Suite now free
It was April 27th around 2:39pm, when Rod announced in his SpringOne Europe opening keynote: “STS will be free!" Reto Meier, with our partner namics, took a picture as proof of that very moment and published it on flickr.com. Also the audience at SpringOne seemed to be enthusiastic about the announcement and as a consequence Read more…
Proxies in OSGi
Over the past couple of months, we've had a number of customers report issues to us regarding ClassNotFoundExceptions and proxies in dm Server. The issue actually has to do with type visibility in OSGi and is explained very well by Peter Kriens over at the OSGi Alliance Blog. Please take a look at his post Read more…
Announcing dm Server 2.0 M1
Development work on dm Server 2.0 has been fully underway for some time now and I'm pleased to announce that the first milestone is available for download. Downloads are available from our home page. You can find more information about the features in this release and the coming release in my previous entry. In this Read more…
SpringSource dm Server Roadmap
We get a lot of questions from dm Server users about what to expect in the next few releases. In this blog entry, I will outline the main features that we have on our roadmap. We are following Scrum practices so you can expect to see reasonably frequent milestones as output from our sprints, and Read more…
Announcing dm Server Getting Started Guide
Over the past few months, the community has shown a great deal of interest in dm Server. The forums are very active and we always have stimulating discussions when presenting at conferences. We've noticed that a lot of the same questions come up as users start developing their first applications for dm Server, and so Read more…
Using Bundlor in Eclipse
In an earlier blog, Ben introduced Bundlor, the concepts behind it and how to use it from the command line as well as from within ANT and Maven. In this post I'll show how Bundlor can be used in an Eclipse environment. When developing OSGi-based applications, some users don't want to spend time constantly updating Read more…
