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aQute is a software consultancy company with focus on OSGi and other Java technologies. We can provide a large number of services in this area: courses, mentoring, design support, turn-key development, and management advice. Contact Peter Kriens for more information.
Blog
Declarative Services and bnd
I really like declarative services because it satisfies one of my main instincts: less is more. You can get services to work in a very easy way. However, the XML is still, well, ehh, XML. Obviously, the unnecessary verboseness of XML still offends my instincts. XML is useful in machine to machine communications because it is well standardized but it should have no place in human-machine interaction.
I therefore, a long time ago, added a facility in bnd to create the declarative services from a manifest header. For simplicity, I like the static 1:1 policy/cardinality so that was the default. Read more ...
Events and News
OSGi Core Platform Group and Enterprise Expert Group meeting in Dublin, 9-10 July Members only meeting.
OSGi Board, CPEG and EEG meetings in New Jersey Telcordia 15-18 Sep. Members only meeting.
Hamburg ObjectForum Nord, Sep 9
XIOS OSGi Summer School, Sep 12
JAOO, Sep 28 - Oct 3 Read more...
W-JAX Munich, Nov 3-7 Read more ...
OSGi EEG Meeting, Nov 12-13, in Montpellier Members only.
OSGi Residential Expert Group, Dec 3-4
Javoxx Antwerp, Dec 8-12 A 3 hour Tour of OSGi on Tuesday, and a one hour presentation Modularity in Java. Read more ...
