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.
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This post is part of a series of posts on java modularity with OSGi and Declarative Services. Please follow the previous parts first (part 1, part 2, part 3) Summary: This tutorial describes how the NetBeans IDE can be used to define OSGi bundles in Maven projects. These bundles again
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This post is part of a series on java modularity. Please first follow the tutorial on OSGi + Maven + Declarative Services in eclipse Summary: In this tutorial I show how the OSGi bundles with declarative services, which were created in the previous post can be tested using Pax Runner running Equinox
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This post is part of a series of post on java modularity. Summary: In this tutorial, I show how declarative service can be implemented with eclipse. I will created each module as plugin project in eclipse to make use of the powerful Plugin Development Environment (PDE), which eclipse offers. But
A number of links concerning Maven and OSGi. Also see the Java Modularity Tutorials (OSGi, Declarative Services and Maven). Maven + NetBeans Maven Best Practices for NetBeans For instance, link Maven goals with IDE actions (so you can right-click the project and „Run on Felix“ NetBeans Quick Start using Maven Shows
