The Problem Some libraries like XStream or Beans serialization require direct access to the classloader of the bundles, which use them. These libraries need access the classes, in order to deserialze them. Otherwise expections like the one below occur: SCHWERWIEGEND: Application class de.mxro.textedit.gdocseditor.gui.GoogleDocsEditorGUIApp failed to
The Problem I have created a very simple Swing class, which is to be started by an OSGi Declarative Service. public class SwingOSGiApplicationService implements ApplicationService { public void activate() { System.out.println("Starting Application Service; show window"); Runnable launcher = new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { JFrame aWindow = new JFrame(
Although it is quite easy to generate OBR meta data for Maven deployments, the general tool support for OBR seems to be quire weak. Links Presentation at eclipsecon 2007 (Abstract) Webpage describing the plugin from above presentation Bundle Plugin for Maven (with additional goals to create bundle meta data)
Abstract: It is no secret that end user interfaces are not Java‘s strongest point especially on the desktop. Nonetheless, there is a great choice of interesting frameworks, some of which are listed below. Links: Generate GUI from Java beans Metawidget http://metawidget.sourceforge.net/videos.html GWTSwing An attempt
The Problem Maven has a slightly different approach to handling resources in Java packages than Eclipse PDE. For Maven, usually only *.java files are compiled and the rest of the files in java packages are ignored. For Eclipse PDE, these files are included in the classpath. This works fine as
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