Category Archives: Computing

Components on the server (4): adding Tomcat support

In this post, we examine what is needed to deploy OSGi in a regular Servlet Container using the Equinox Servlet Bridge. We also use the Servlet Bridge to deploy our OSGi cache using Tomcat and wrap it up all together … Continue reading

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Components on the server (3): adding a HTTP frontend

Welcome to the third instalment of our OSGi ABC tutorial. Please make sure you check both the 1st installment and the 2nd. In this post, we will add another cache provider implementation to the mix as well as provide an … Continue reading

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Components on the server (2): creating the first bundles

Hopefully you enjoyed the OSGi journey in its first installment. Though simple and easy to understand, the first example does nothing out of the ordinary. It is far more interesting to start exploiting some of the basic features OSGi gets … Continue reading

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Com passa el temps en el món de la indústria informàtica

Estava llegint l’article curtet de la BusinessWeek que comenta breument l’evolució de la situació d’Apple a nivell de borsa. M’ha cridat l’atenció la següent llista del valor total de l’empresa (market cap): Microsoft — $236 billion Apple — $183 billion … Continue reading

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Flash: the Wider Picture of an identy crisis

In this post I try to paint a bigger picture on the sneaky attack directed by major industry players to Adobe. Namely Apple, Google and Microsoft. There have been a number of seemingly unrelated news that will affect the status … Continue reading

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Components on the server: an OSGi mini-project

The best way to start with OSGi on the server side is with a mini-project to help clarify concepts and workout the mechanics. I have chosen a simple idea: build a volatile cache that stores objects. The interface with it … Continue reading

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Experiencing server-side OSGi with Equinox

There is currently a lot of buzz about the OSGi java component technology, also server-side. I have been playing -and working- with this interesting technology recently, mainly the Equinox server-side bundles that allow deployment of an OSGi environment in a … Continue reading

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L’Enginyeria Informàtica aturada???

M’he quedat sense paraules en llegir la notícia que el Govern Espanyol encara no ha publicat les fitxes de competències per les enginyeries informàtiques. Informàtica és doncs l’única enginyeria que no en té de cara al procés de regularització de … Continue reading

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