Category Archives: OSGi

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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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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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New message extension update

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Dirk Fauth

I’m very happy and of course proud to see that the new message extension created by Tom Schindl and me is part of the Eclipse platform with Eclipse Luna M3. If you followed my blog post series about the new … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Internationalization Part 4/4 – New Features by Dirk Fauth

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Dirk Fauth

Finally I found the time to write the last part of my blog post series about Eclipse internationalization with the new message extension created by Tom Schindl and me. The series started with showing the issues in the current solution … Continue reading →

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Leap Motion in Eclipse 4

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Dirk Fauth

The Leap Motion device is out! Great news for all who waited for it. For me as an Eclipse 4 enthusiast and a technology lover it was obvious to bring both worlds together. Controlling an Eclipse 4 application with gestures. … Continue reading →

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