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...

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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...

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Global JNDI support in Virgo Server 3.5 for Tomcat

This rather long post analyses four solutions to the problem of using data sources, and more in general JNDI in Virgo, the 4th being the one I recommend and decided to use, which consists in leveraging Tomcat's built-in JNDI provider in Eclipse Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat. If you are not interested...

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Eclipse and the Ubuntu global menu

[Originally shared on G+ the 7th of August 2012] For those working with Eclipse on Ubuntu, if you don't like the fact that the Eclipse menu does not blend into Unity's global menubar, you may want to try this hack https://bugs.launchpad.net/eclipse/+bug/618587/comments/46You may experience some...

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First contact with Virgo Server, Virgo Tools, Eclipse Link

[Updated version of a post originally shared on G+ on the 22nd of June 2012] My team and I have been working on an OSGi enterprise prototype since April 2012. We decided to use Eclipse Virgo Tomcat Server as our application server. Here is the experience collected so far, using Virgo 3.5M4 and version...

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How to fix unreadable Eclipse tooltips in Ubuntu 12.04

[Originally posted on G+ on May 7th 2012] Similarly to what happened in earlier versions of Ubuntu, the default tooltip colors of the Ambiance theme (Ubuntu default) results in unreadable Eclipse tooltips (black foreground text on black background).In earlier versions of Ubuntu you could edit...

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Sonar and PDE Build

[Originally posted on G+ on the 17th of January 2012] I finally completed the integration of #Sonar (http://www.sonarsource.org) in our PDEBuild (http://eclipse.org/pde/pde-build/) based build system. Requirements I was looking for an integration approach that would allow us to run the analysis...

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