Vote for Java6 on OSX

Since late 2005 i am deveoping all open source stuff on my powerbook. (yes, that has to be replaced by a more recent maching like MBP C2D 2,4GHz very soon.. still gathering money).

Actually OSX is a very nice envinronment to work in. And it is quite well developing java in.
But Apple still haven't got released a Java6 SDK/JRE.
Even worse, there isn't much information about any (if any) timeschedule available.

Because of that this guys launched a vote on it.
I want a Java6 on my mac really soon, so no brainer i vote for it!

13949712720901ForOSX

Thats it.

Link: OSGi on Google's Android

This is just a quick referal to the fact that Felix has been successfully installed (and started) on Google's new operating system for mobile phones!

The guy behind is Karl Pauls of Luminis who is Apache Felix committer.
According to this blog entry only small change to the felix framework was necessary and chances are good that it will be integrated into standard apache felix.

Another comment at the blog was including felix into standard android.. so that's the way to go, google! ;-)
Good Job, Karl!

Toni

251.787.0

There are some projects running which now got an overal direction.
The projects are as of today:

• okidoki: a pretty unique integrated build system for osgi bundles.
  
• viscera: introducing your java as semantic web
  
• osgify.com: use osgi structures without hassle.
  

They are in active development since summer '07. Some of them are currently in private beta. Some but not all are osgi related.

Nevertheless they all make up a very unique development stack never touched before.
Once it's time, i will show information and release all projects for further development at ops4j.org.

The overall identifier for all efforts mentioned above is
Its not more than a pretty scary number.. but its a title which won't interfer with other projects.
Details on each of the projects as well as official announcements and public code release will show up here occasionally.

So long, happy coding,
Toni

Installing Jetty on Ubuntu - or

This one from http://dannyayers.com/2007/11/16/installing-jetty-on
is pretty funny in a subtle way:
Its an article entitled: Installing Jetty on Ubuntu Gutsy

added multiverse to /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre

apt-get install jetty

cd /usr/share/jetty/lib
java -jar start.jar /etc/jetty/jetty.xml

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
...

apt-get remove jetty
apt-get autoremove

apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps

* Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat5.5 [ OK ]

wget http://localhost:8180/
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Not sure if the original author thought about it this way but thats a pretty nice
analogy to common behaviour in IT - enterprise projects today.

Its pragmatic behaviour extended to a level where things are on the way getting worse!
Of cause i am not talking about technologies mentioned in this quote. Those can be exchanged anyway.