aQute - Software Consultancy
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.
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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
JavaOne, San Francisco, May 6-9. BJ Hargrave and Peter Kriens will give a presentation about Converting Large Applications to OSGi. Read more
OSGi Core Platform Group and Enterprise Expert Group meeting in Southampton, 21-22 May Members only meeting.
OSGi Community Meeting, Berlin, 10-11 June A must go event if you read this text. Last year was a very exciting program and this year we are trying to make it even better! Read more...
