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A sketch of Adobe Flex Architecture capabilities

2008-01-20T17:44:31Z

I am evaluating Adobe Flex technology to do rich internet applications. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: so in the following I sketched an overview of Flex programming capabilities. Diagram focuses on how to create a Flash Application (compiling MXML and Actionscript files using the free Flex SDK) and on what kind of interactions [...]

Ubuntu Gutsy (7.1) on a Toshiba Satellite A100-022

2008-01-08T08:51:15Z

As holiday geek-fun I installed Ubuntu 7.1 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop A100-022 (a laptop which surprisingly is difficult to find information online). It was a great pleasure for me to note that Ubuntu is the first 100% (or 99%:) laptop friendly Linux distribution. Most of laptop functionalities worked out of the [...]

5-minute guide to start developing with OSGi in Eclipse

2008-01-02T10:34:46Z

In this tutorial I propose a quick step-by-step guide to start developing your OSGi bundles using Eclipse IDE and a standalone Equinox implementation. Download latest Equinox distribution and unpack it Configure Eclipse Target Platform Create an OSGi Project for your bundle Develop your bundle Run or Debug your bundle inside Eclipse Deploy your bundle Step 1. Download latest Equinox distribution and unpack [...]

Worth Printing #1: REST introduction

2007-12-29T15:22:16Z

Worth Printing is a new series of posts dedicated to technical articles and blog stories which are worth of printing for easy reading and relaxed brainstorming. My goal is to propose some pills of good information from the whole mess of the Web. In this first post I suggest an interesting introduction of REST made by [...]

Technology Mindmap 2007

2007-12-13T15:15:45Z

I like to maintain mindmaps about large fields of knowledge. It helps me to keep context and to stay focused on whatever I do or I like to do. I made a Technology Mindmap which contains - according my opinion - most used technologies / projects used in IT field in these months. Maybe I am missing [...]

Lotus Symphony based on Eclipse RCP

2007-10-28T21:26:47Z

I installed the latest Office Productivity Pack announced by IBM and called Lotus Symphony. It contains a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation program. I was very impressed by the fact that it has been implemented on Eclipse RCP. In other words its architecture is based on OSGi and Java. Probably it is not 100% [...]

Ubiquitous Programs and Data on an USB key

2007-07-28T13:44:10Z

My programs and my data (work and personal) are stored on an USB key which I plug indifferently where I need: home, work and mobile. It is gratifyng to have my working environment in whatever site I am and with whatever Windows hardware I am approaching my work. Several yeas ago I advocated the use of [...]

Blog Migration

2007-07-15T16:32:52Z

I am migrating my blog to a new publishing platform (cfr. Wordpress). I am sorry if you can’t access my previous posts about OSGi technology. Hope to publish them soon. Piero

Status of Opensource OSGi containers

2007-01-22T20:40:33Z

I wrote some tables summarizing status of OSGi opensource containers and their adherence to OSGi standard. In the first table I have compared adherence to the core standard while on the second I have compared adherence to optional services. For the comparison i considered following opensource implementations: Eclipse Equinox, Apache Felix, Knopflerfish OSGi and Osxa framework. Update 01-23-06: [...]

Informal comparison of Java Component Models (Javabeans, EJB 2.x, OSGi)

2006-12-20T21:12:32Z

I made an informal comparison table of three Java component models: JavaBeans, EJB 2.x and OSGi. I considered several point of views without being rigorous on terminology. My goal was to show fundamental features of these component models. Personally I think that previously used component models (in particular EJB) lack many fundamental features that can [...]