Day 12 of 30 (in 30 days of Geek)…
– What area do you want to expand your skills into?
One area I would like to focus on is plug-ins and OSGI. Specifically, I would like to spend more time looking at the Eclipse RCP system, and implement some plug-ins. I have worked though some hello world examples, but found those a bit limited, and would like more.
Luckily, I am moving to a new job next month, and the new system is designed around an OSGI architecture using JMS (which I used at Vodafone) and heavily uses plug-ins. More about that in the future.
Additionally, I recent joined the apple developer network, and bought a macbook
and an ipod touch with plans do develop some iOS apps.
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Hi Andy,
just a couple of links, in case you haven’t stumbled upon them yet:
‘OSGi in practice’, a free book by Neil Bartlett http://njbartlett.name/osgibook.html
‘The whiteboard pattern’, by Peter Kriens http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/Links/whiteboard.pdf
(never really got to use it but I’d like to experiment with it, as an alternative to the listener pattern)
I’m curious to see what you think about OSGi, it seems to generate flames on the web quite rapidly.
Eclipse is even more complicated because it has got some legacy from a pre-existing plugin system, previous to Equinox. I wonder whether they’ve cleaned it up with e4.
Also, since IBM has stopped being a major contributor in the last few years, the foundation has been struggling a bit .
This guy is a champion contributor: http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/
And that one: http://www.soyatec.com/main.php
- Emanuele