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Jan 6, 2022
May 31, 2017
Java 9 delayed... again
As expected, after the down vote of the expert group, jigsaw and Java 9 are delayed once more. This time it's a 8 week delay
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2017-May/005864.html
Will the expert group reach an agreement? I am not very optimistic, but would be happy to be proven wrong....
Apr 17, 2017
Java 9 Jigsaw and OSGi
On Google+ Mark Derricut wrote about a post by RedHat's Scott Stark about Jigsaw, the Java 9 module system, as well as a follow up by Mike Hearn.
I have been following Jigsaw for some years, and I found both posts very interesting. Scott's post highlights some worrying problems in the current Jigsaw...
Mar 10, 2017
Virgo 3.7.0 Released
Today Florian announced the availability of Virgo 3.7.0.
Virgo 3.7.0 brings several improvements (most notably Tomcat 8.5 and Spring Framework 4.2) and is paired by release 1.5.0 of the Virgo Tools, the Eclipse IDE integration.
This is the first official Virgo release since I joined the...
Feb 2, 2017
Virgo 3.7.0.M4 released
Virgo 3.7.0 M4 has been released.
The final 3.7.0 release is planned for end of Feb....
Jan 5, 2017
Virgo Tools 1.5
Since September 2015 I am a committer of the open source Eclipse Virgo project.
I have written several posts in the past about the Eclipse Virgo OSGi application server, and after having helped the project team with patches and bug fixes I have been invited by Florian, the project lead, to join the...
Oct 22, 2014
Profiling Virgo with JProfiler
The information below has been tested with JProfile 5 on Linux 64bit, and assumes that the JProfiler Agent is installed in folder /opt/jprofiler5.
While this post refers to a rather old JProfiler version, I am sure the principles apply also to more recent JProfiler version.
The following...