This week I had to trace a bug in a legacy application, I'm maintaining at the moment, which drove me up the wall. The application uses a class from JDK's tools.jar, to determine the JVM instances currently running. Unfortunately, there are...

In my new company one of the main communication channels is IRC. Unfortunately, I'm not able to hang out on IRC all day. That means, I'm not only missing interesting discussions, but I'm also always the last to get to know about interesting...

This coming Wednesday Gregor Roth from 1&1, you might know him from his InfoQ article, is going to give a talk on RESTful applications at the Java User Group Karlsruhe. He will show how to implement applications leveraging a RESTful architecture and...

A couple of days ago, I implemented a sample application, based on Spring Dynamic Modules (DM) 1.2.0, with its annotation extension. Unfortunately the documentation doesn't contain any sample code, which might cause some unnecessary work, if you are...

Apress was kind enough to pass me a copy of this book, which I agreed to review in return. I have been sitting on Pro Spring Dynamic Modules for Osgi(tm) Service Platforms for a while, although I got a fresh copy right after if was released earlier...