I am working on a new desktop application using Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Eclipse RCP applications are comprised of plugins. The plugins are not any ordinary old plugins. They are Open Standard Gateway Initiative (OSGI) plugins. One feature of OSGI plugins is classpath separation. One plugin can be running dom4j 1.5 and another dom4j… Continue reading Eclipse RCP/OSGI Classloader HOWTO
Month: August 2005
hloader 0.7 released – easy object loading for Hibernate3
Hloader is a tool for persistent object instances, expressed in XML, into a database using Hibernate. It is a Hibernate loader, thus the name. It can be used for: loading reference data loading bootstrap data loading test setup data More than anything, hloader extends an near zero cost of change to this data, thus supporting… Continue reading hloader 0.7 released – easy object loading for Hibernate3
O’Reilly Open Source Conference Coverage
OSCON 2005 kicks off tomorrow 1 August 2005. I am here all week and am planning to update this blog entry with news and other tidbits. Wednesday – Keynotes and Sessions Tim O’Reilly Tim has some interesting visualisation tools for book sales. Of interest to me personally was that C# declined last year and Java… Continue reading O’Reilly Open Source Conference Coverage