git repo (mirror) for rt/org.eclipse.ecf
With a bunch of breaking API changes ahead of me and no intention to get into CVS merge hell (using my own branch for the changes), I decided to give git a test spin. Others have blogged about it...
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Google summer of code 2009 is on
Yesterday the GSoC team gave the green light to Google summer of code 2009. Yay :-) In case you don’t know what GSoC is all about, you should read the program faq or join us in #eclipse-soc at...
View Articlep2 metadata generation embedded into classic update site building
Many of us have probably written their PDE build around the famous build automation article. With Galiloe’s must do to provide p2 metadata, many projects are forced to update their build now. We at ECF...
View ArticleGit anybody? – not so fast
Git appears to gain a lot momentum as the DVCS for Eclipse recently. Even our benevolent dictator Mike M. deemed it important enough to comment on _the_ Git bug. ;-) While I am a strong supporter of...
View ArticleDistributed OSGi – The ECF way at DemoCamp Hamburg
Following up on our presentations given at EclipseCon earlier this year [1][2], I will do a talk on ECF’s implementation of distributed OSGi/RFC119 later today at the local Galileo DemoCamp here in...
View ArticleDo not ask what the committer reps can do for you, ask what you can do for...
In a recent blog post by Wim, he asked how the Eclipse Foundation (EF) can help solve the tragedy of the commons problem and bug #313479 follows up on this direction by requesting the EF to support...
View ArticleWONTFIX: Run JUnit Plug-in tests on a non-Equinox framework
In case you want to make sure your code is interoperable between different OSGi frameworks, you will be interested in bug #319089. It is about enhancing the JUnit Plug-in Launch config to support more...
View ArticleMylyn commit message templates for EGit with Gitlyn (hack)
As long as we are waiting for Mylyn commit message templates to appear in EGit (see bug #329515), I have hacked an AspectJ/Equinox weaving based bundle that injects the current commit template into the...
View ArticleBuckminster rmap to p2 (composite) repository metadata
ECF has been using an rmap to b3aggr xslt stylesheet for a while now, and today I needed a similar stylesheet to convert to p2 composite repositories (single sourcing repositories feed from Buckminster...
View ArticleQuick’n'dirty Apache Felix webconsole on (recent) Equinox
Below you find a instructions to install Apache Felix webconsole on a running Equinox. Just paste this into the console and start bundle “org.apache.felix.webconsole” and...
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(Squid) proxy and p2
If you happen to run a (local) proxy underneath you continuous build server, you might be a little bit surprised to learn that caching does show its full potential. E.g. if you look at your squid...
View ArticleProgramatically push configuration into OSGi ConfigurationAdmin
Yesterday I lost half an hour when I struggled to push a configuration into OSGi ConfigurationAdmin. The org.osgi.service.cm.ManagedService was in fact called, but the Dictionary of properties was...
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Real word scale greenhouse (temperature)
On my route to rebuild the M2M demo at real-world scale, I have taken the first step. An old (from around 2004) and absurdly underpowered ARM Intel XScale IXP420 running today’s Debian Wheezy (NSLU2)...
View ArticleApache Felix HTTP whiteboard pattern on Equinox
Unless I am missing something obvious, using the Equinox HttpService requires one to: a) get the HttpService from the OSGi service registry b) register the HttpServlet on the HttpService via a call to...
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SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed] running platform tests...
When running platform tests on Linux (and Mac?) one might encounter the following exception: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles [gtk_init_check() failed] at...
View ArticleBuckminster rmap to p2 (composite) repository metadata
ECF has been using an rmap to b3aggr xslt stylesheet for a while now, and today I needed a similar stylesheet to convert to p2 composite repositories (single sourcing repositories feed from Buckminster...
View ArticleQuick’n'dirty Apache Felix webconsole on (recent) Equinox
Below you find a instructions to install Apache Felix webconsole on a running Equinox. Just paste this into the console and start bundle “org.apache.felix.webconsole” and...
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(Squid) proxy and p2
If you happen to run a (local) proxy underneath you continuous build server, you might be a little bit surprised to learn that caching does show its full potential. E.g. if you look at your squid...
View ArticleProgramatically push configuration into OSGi ConfigurationAdmin
Yesterday I lost half an hour when I struggled to push a configuration into OSGi ConfigurationAdmin. The org.osgi.service.cm.ManagedService was in fact called, but the Dictionary of properties was...
View ArticleApache Felix HTTP whiteboard pattern on Equinox
Unless I am missing something obvious, using the Equinox HttpService requires one to: a) get the HttpService from the OSGi service registry b) register the HttpServlet on the HttpService via a call to...
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