Category Archives: Java

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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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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Make Retrofit ready for usage in OSGi

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Simon Scholz

Retrofit is a really great library for addressing  REST APIs. It is often used for Android apps, because it is really lightweight and easy to use. I’d also love to use this library for my Eclipse 4 RCP applications, so … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Hackathon Hamburg, January, 23rd 2015

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Simon Scholz

We like to announce this coming Eclipse event again, since this is such a great Eclipse community event. So please don’t miss the change to be a part of it. In Hamburg and its surroundings there are so many Eclipse … Continue reading →

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Migration to JUnit 4

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Simon Scholz

When you’re facing the issue to migrate your JUnit 3 tests to JUnit 4, it can be very annoying, because of course you all have a lot of tests. 😉 In general it is a mindless task to migrate things … Continue reading →

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Accessing the caller information of a method in Java code

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Lars Vogel

Sometimes it is nice to access the caller of a method. Doing this is relatively simple, you can use the getStackTrace() method on the current thread. This returns the call stack in reverse order, e.g. the first element is the … Continue reading →

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