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 team as a committer.

I am an individual committer, contributing to the project in my spare time. I spent almost all of my effort on the Virgo Tools, the Eclipse plug-ins that integrate Virgo as a test environment in Eclipse. The most notable improvements of the upcoming version 1.5 of the Virgo tools will be:

1. Support for PDE Plug-in projects. This is the possibility to develop for the Virgo runtime using the Eclipse PDE Tools, Plug-in Development Environment. This was one of the most requested and long standing missing features. See here and here.
2. Improved support for plan projects. Virgo supports deployment of a number of artifacts, including Plans. Plans are XML files listing Bundles and other Plans to be activated. The Virgo Tools now provide fair support for having Plan files in Eclipse and deploying them to the test environment.
3. Bug fixes and documentation
4. Compatibility fixes for Eclipse Neon

We are currently planning to release the Virgo Tools 1.5 in January 2017 to be shortly followed by Eclipse Virgo 3.7.

Stay tuned!