Spring OSGi + Eclipse RCP Tutorial

Ralf Elbert has just posted a tutorial explaining how to use Spring Dynamic Modules in an Eclipse RCP application:

Spring is not only a helpful framework for the server side, its “Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi” can be beneficial for Eclipse RCP applications on the client side as well:

– Spring’s IoC container is the most well known implementation of dependency injection. As inversion of control and dependency injection are very general concepts for structuring software applications, you may want to use it to inject the dependencies of your UI and non-UI client-side components as well.

– Spring provides a bunch of general-purpose abstractions for other frameworks…

Read the complete tutorial here.

SpringSource: Introduction to the OSGi Web Container

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 way.
This is extremely interesting for us, because dm Server has supported WAR files for nearly 18 months now and we are excited to be able to work towards a standard model. As an end user, you’ll be able to deploy WAR files on OSGi without depending on proprietary APIs or features.

Read the complete post on the SpringSource blog.