EclipseCon 09 Slides online
At this year's EclipseCon / OSGi DevCon I focussed very much on OSGi. On Monday I did a four hour tutorial and on Thursday I did a short talk. In between I visited a lot of interesting OSGi sessions and hence I am fully loaded with lots of ideas to try out.
Neil Bartlett and me introduced Component Oriented Development in OSGi with DS, Spring and iPOJO. Yet this is a rather advanced topic the course was pretty crowded which shows that OSGi has been greatly adopted by the Java community.
As chances are that Scala will heavily hit the Java world, Roman Roelofsen and me taked about OSGi on Scala: We introduced BindForge, a module framework offering dependency injection configured via a Scala DSL. And we showed ScalaModules, a Scala DSL to ease OSGi programming. It was a pleasure to see quite a lot of people showing up. And when I asked who has already written Scala code about half of the people raised a hand.
So what will happen next? OSGi everywhere? New projects using more and more Scala instead of Java? We will see ...
