Java 9 delayed... again

Posted on May 31, 2017

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.htmlWill the expert group reach an agreement? I am not very optimistic, but would be happy to be proven wrong.
Tags: OSGi JPMS java9 Jigsaw

Java 9 Jigsaw and OSGi

Posted on April 17, 2017

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... [Read More]
Tags: Virgo OSGi Maven JPMS Jigsaw

Virgo 3.7.0 Released

Posted on March 10, 2017

 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 project as a committer, and it's... [Read More]
Tags: Tomcat Virgo OSGi Eclipse Spring Virgo Tools