Category Archives: Dirk Fauth

OSGi Event Admin – Publish & Subscribe

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

In this blog post I want to write about the publish & subscribe mechanism in OSGi, provided via the OSGi Event Admin Service. Of course I will show this in combination with OSGi Declarative Services, because this is the technology … Continue reading →

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Access OSGi Services via web interface

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

In this blog post I want to share a simple approach to make OSGi services available via web interface. I will show a simple approach that includes the following: Embedding a Jetty  Webserver in an OSGi application Registering a Servlet … Continue reading →

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OSGi Declarative Services news in Eclipse Oxygen

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

With this blog post I want to share my excitement about the OSGi DS related news that are coming with Eclipse Oxygen. I want to use this blog post to inform about the new features and also the changes you … Continue reading →

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Control OSGi DS Component Instances via Configuration Admin

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

While trying to clean up the OSGi services in the Eclipse Platform Runtime I came across the fact that singleton service instances are not always feasible. For example the fact that the localization is done on application level does not work … Continue reading →

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Control OSGi DS Component Instances

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Dirk Fauth

I recently came across some use cases where a more fine grained control is needed for component instance creation. I spent some time in investigating how this is done with OSGi Declarative Services in detail. It turned out that it … Continue reading →

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Configuring OSGi Declarative Services

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In my blog post about Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services I provided an introduction to OSGi declarative services. How to create them, how they behave at runtime, how to reference other services, and so on. But I left out … Continue reading →

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OSGi Component Testing

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In my last blog post I talked about Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services. In this blog post I want to show how to test OSGi service components. Unit testing / “white-box testing” The first approach for testing components is … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with OSGi Declarative Services

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In the last weeks I worked intensively on getting a deeper knowledge in OSGi declarative services. I use them for a while with Eclipse 4, but never had a deep understanding of everything. Well, basically it is not that complicated at … Continue reading →

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Run an Eclipse 32-bit application from a 64-bit Eclipse IDE

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

Typically the development environment should not be dependent on the target environment the application should run on. For creating an Eclipse RCP application using SWT, this is not as trivial as it looks like. The reason for this is the … Continue reading →

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OSGi – bundles / fragments / dependencies

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Dirk Fauth

In the last weeks I needed to look at several issues regarding OSGi dependencies in different products. A lot of these issues were IMHO related to wrong usage of OSGi bundle fragments. As I needed to search for various solutions, I … Continue reading →

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