Phurnace Blog tagged 'Spring Framework'

Spring, JBoss, and OSGI: Two different approaches

Wesley Willard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0100

One of the hottest technologies right now in server-side development right now is OSGi (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative). As the underlying framework on which the Eclipse Project's runtime is based (since 3.0), this technology is starting to garner a lot of attention for its abilities to allow the development of "bundles" (or, "plugins"). This has enabled the popularity of Eclipse to grow by leaps and bounds, as plugins can be quickly added or upd [...]

No Fluff, Just Stuff

Wesley Willard — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

To a non-geek, spending a weekend in hotel conference rooms listening to presentations on the latest technologies in software development might make them beg, "just shoot me now, please". But to someone interested in keeping abreast of these sorts of things, for both company and personal reasons, it was a very nice way to do just that. Plus, it was hot as hell outside, the neighborhood pool is even hot, and the lake is just too far away.

The Lone Star Symposium was held this past weeken [...]