Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to generate a P2 repository based on Maven artifacts. That described approach is obsolete nowadays and I'd like to show a new approach that is based on the p2-maven-plugin that was created to solve exactly this problem. P2-Maven-Plugin Integration in Maven Build Life Cycle …

I use Pax Runner to provisioning my OSGi applications. I want to use several OSGi applications on my test server. As soon as you start the second OSGi application provisioned by Pax Runner, you get the following exception: 1Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.ops4j.pax.runner.daemon.lock …

In my last post of this series, I described how to solve the dependency problem. In this post, I will describe how to build Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse Feature with Maven Tycho and which problems I have. POM Definition The procedure for both Eclipse artifacts is similar. In both, you have to insert a pom.xml and fill it …

In the last weeks I familiarised myself with OSGi. Two books were very helpful: Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring by Craig Walls OSGi für Praktiker - Prinzipien, Werkzeuge und praktische Anleitungen auf dem Weg zur kleinen SOA by Bernd Weber, Patrick Baumgartner, Oliver Braun (in …