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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Developing for Virgo server with Eclipse PDE

Last week I pushed to github an Eclipse plug-in released under the EPL license that allows using PDE plug-in projects with Virgo Tools. Source code, binaries and documentation are available here:   http://github.com/giamma/pde2virgo  The plug-in is pretty simple: it contributes a new builder...

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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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