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Recently I took a deeper look at OSGi Declarative Services (DS), Spring Dynamic Modules, iPOJO and Peaberry. I have to admit that I like DS a lot (and even more…

Java WebStart is a nice and easy way of deploying Java applications with one click from the web. In this blog I describe how to webstart an OSGi (Equinox) based…

Together with my buddies Martin Lippert and Gerd Wütherich I gave a talk about "patterns and best practices for dynamic OSGi applications" at the OOP conference in Munich. The talk…

Recently I created a continuous integration environment for my dynamic Swing OSGi demo. For the headless build I use PDE build and I also created a feature and a main…

You may have noticed that feature brandings disappear if you get rid of all the update manager stuff and just use p2 (version 3.4.1). The solution to get the feature…

When it comes to databinding, a very common use case is to decorate form fields with little markers that indicate the state of the control. The following example explains how…

I am very happy that my "Advanced Eclipse Rich Client Platform Tutorial" (together with Ben Pasero), my little "e4 RCP CSS Styling Demo", and also the tutorial "RCP Mail 2.0:…

I am preparing a few talks about dynamic OSGi applications. To get my hands dirty I started a little demo project to showcase different scenarios. That SWT works very well…

Based on the work of Tom, Boris, Kevin, Angelo and many others, I started a little e4 demo, playing around with Angelo's Tk-UI css engine to style SWT. Here is…

I just returned from JAOO 2008, a developer conference held in Aarhus, Denmark. Jaoo is one of my favorite conferences, and this year it was as great as the years…