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.

Starting with OSGi? Try Pax Runner!

Despite what you can read in forums or mailing lists, starting with OSGi is just a matter of minutes if you use the right tool. And the name of the right tool is Pax Runner.

Pax Runner claims to be

a tool to provision OSGi bundles in all major open source OSGi framework implementations (Felix, Equinox, Knopflerfish, Concierge).

but is actually much more. With Pax Runner

OSGi: Go Forth And Extend

Todor Boev has a good introduction on OSGi and it’s architecture.

This entry is my take on a trait of the current OSGi architecture unparalleled to my knowledge in any other modular environment. Before I delve in I must introduce in brief said architecture. Detailed descriptions can be found in the public OSGi specification.

Read the complete post in Todor’s blog.

Google Web Toolkit on OSGi, step by step

Angelo van der Sijpt of Luminis has just published a simple, step-by-step tutorial to use GWT (Google Web Toolkit) in a OSGi application.

Google Web Toolkit is cool, and so is OSGi. However, creating a web application that can use GWT services is not that easy. By the end of this tutorial, you will have created a GWT project that delivers a usable jar. If you’re impatient, skip to the end for the downloadable Eclipse project.

Read the tutorial on the Luminis blog.