General Guidelines * Use the same version number for the bundles and Maven artifacts for releases * For snapshots, append .SNAPSHOT for the bundle version and -SNAPSHOT for Maven (E.g. Bundle: 0.0.1.SNAPSHOT, Artifact: 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT) * Use the same name for bundle name and artifact ID * When a
Eclipse PDE and Maven do not always work together seamlessly. Here a few links that can be of help: (for more help also have a look at the Maven/OSGi tutorials) Mails PDE dependency and Maven dependency Open Bug for M2Eclipse And another open bug for M2Eclipse Wiki page of
This post contains a number of experiences made while making a Swing desktop application modular using Maven and Subversion. Environment Install a subversion server (for instance on ubuntu server or on windows using VisualSVN) Set up one subversion repository for all your projects. (Read more on setting up SVN repository
Maven and subversion both manage different versions of development projects but they have different focusses. While Maven focusses on the management of whole modules/projects/packages, subversion manages each and every file of the development. In Maven, the version that is currently under development is annotated with the version postfix
It is fairly easy to set up Maven under Windows Vista, following this Excellent tutorial. However, I had a few difficulties figuring out some steps, which are described in the following: How to set your environment variables under Windows Vista? Right click your „Computer“ and select „Properties“ - here click
Two popular alternatives are Nexus and Artifactory and it is highly debated, which is the best option to use. Nexus seems to have the smaller footprint on the server‘s memory. Installing Nexus Download and Install Apache Tomcat (as Windows Service) You can deploy Nexus as a War file. The
Modern applications depend on a great number of third party libraries, or libraries, which are developed as part of a project or in other places in the organization. Managing these dependencies is a daunting task. If, for instance, in the scenario depicted below, the module 1 must be added to
I provide here a number of tutorials to set up and work with a development environment as depicted below: Why I chose to use OSGi with Declarative Services is discussed in the post Modular Software Development OSGi, Spring DM, iPOJO and Declarative Services. Why I chose Apache Maven is described
Software development is inherently different from other forms of creation. Traditional production requires a constant inflow of fresh resources, for instance energy and raw materials. Creating movies requires the combined effort of many skilled people and even writing a book cannot be accomplished without a significant investment of time and
This post is part of a series of posts on java modularity. Summary: I show in this tutorial how we can create a simple component using the eclipse IDE, which calls the services, we have created in the previous parts. Again, the component is deployed as Maven package and can
There are many similarities between the NetBeans Application Platform/NetBeans Modules and OSGi container/OSGi bundles. Whereas the standard NetBeans Application Platform project includes a great number of NetBeans modules, which significantly increases the startup time, the platform also runs on a small number of core modules. These are: -
This post is part of a series of posts on java modularity. This tutorial depends on the part Part 1: OSGi + Maven + Declarative Services + eclipse Summary: I show in this tutorial how a convenient launch configuration for the bundles created in the first part can be created using eclipse PDE.
