Category Archives: Dirk Fauth

Eclipse RCP, Java 11, JAXB

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Dirk Fauth

With Java 11 several packages have been removed from the JRE itself, like JAXB. This means if you use JAXB in your Java application, you need to add the necessary bundles to your runtime. In an OSGi application this gets … Continue reading →

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Inspecting the OSGi runtime – New ways for Eclipse projects

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Dirk Fauth

I often get asked how to find and solve issues in an OSGi runtime. Especially with regards to OSGi services. I then always answer that you have two options: Use the Gogo Shellscr:list – lists all DS componentsscr:info <id> – … Continue reading →

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Build REST services with OSGi JAX-RS whiteboard

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Dirk Fauth

Some years ago I had a requirement to access the OSGi services inside my Eclipse application via web interface. Back then I used the OSGi HTTP Whiteboard Specification and wrapped a servlet around my service. Of course I wrote a … Continue reading →

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NatTable + Eclipse Collections = Performance & Memory improvements ?

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Dirk Fauth

Some time ago I got reports from NatTable users about high memory consumption when using NatTable with huge data sets. Especially when using trees, the row hide/show feature and/or the row grouping feature. Typically I tended to say that this … Continue reading →

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NatTable – dynamic scaling enhancements

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Dirk Fauth

The last weeks I worked on harmonizing the scaling capabilities of NatTable. The first goal was to provide scaled versions of all internal NatTable images. This caused an update of several NatTable images like the checkbox, that you will notice … Continue reading →

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Building a “headless RCP” application with Tycho

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Dirk Fauth

Recently I got the request to create a “headless RCP” application from an existing Eclipse project. I was reading several posts on that and saw that a lot of people using the term “headless RCP”. First of all I have … Continue reading →

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POM-less Tycho enhanced

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Dirk Fauth

With Tycho 0.24 POM-less Tycho builds were introduced. This Maven extension was a big step forward with regards to build configuration, as plugin, feature and plugin test projects don’t need a dedicated pom.xml file anymore. Therefore there are less pom.xml files … Continue reading →

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Add JavaFX controls to a SWT Eclipse 4 application – Eclipse RCP Cookbook UPDATE

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Dirk Fauth

I wrote about this topic already a while ago on another blog. But since then quite a few things have changed and I wanted to publish an updated version of that blog post. Because of various reasons I decided to … Continue reading →

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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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