[osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread syedjavid...@cascademic.com
Dear Osgi Members, I have gone through this below link. What should i do after this. Please help me out. I am new to OSGi. http://bndtools.org/tutorial.html Thanks Regards Syed 8553043179 On Thursday 03 October 2013 12:16 AM, osgi-dev-requ...@mail.osgi.org wrote: Send osgi-dev mailing list

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Daniel McGreal
Hi Syed, I would recommend using OSGi for a simple modularised task, or modularising an existing application - prompting more specific questions. Depending on what work you have in front of you, you could investigate some of the higher level abstractions, such as those in Spring, etc. Best, Dan.

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Shawn Ericson
Syed, I am also a newcomer to OSGi. I've been working with it for about 6-8 months converting an existing application to OSGi. I strongly recommend Dan's suggestion of investigating higher level abstractions like DS, Spring, iPOJO and Blueprint. A higher level API will be very helpful if you

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Christian Schneider
Hi Syed, joke apart .. the tutorial is a grea starting point but as a next step you should pick some small real world or toy project and try to implement it using OSGi. On the way you will learn a lot and for sure come back with some questions and problems where we can help out. You might

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Neil Bartlett
Did you take a look at the book suggestions you received on the other mailing list? I particularly recommend OSGi in Action (Hall et al) and Enterprise OSGi in Action (Ward and Cummins).After that, it's best to try to apply what you have learned to something real, even if it's only small scale.

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Cristiano Gavião
Just a curiosity... why Bndtools uses Ant instead Maven ? Cristiano On 03/10/13 13:49, Neil Bartlett wrote: Did you take a look at the book suggestions you received on the other mailing list? I particularly recommend OSGi in Action (Hall et al) and Enterprise OSGi in Action (Ward and

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Neil Bartlett
Cristiano,Bndtools can use most build tools, including Ant, Maven and Gradle. We use the "build model" provided by bnd to abstract away from the low-level build system, so actually you rarely touch the build.xml files when working with bnd.I know that Ant isn't fashionable these days. But neither

Re: [osgi-dev] What to do next

2013-10-03 Thread Cristiano Gavião
Hi Neil, thanks for the inputs... I have been using maven since a long time. too long before I started with OSGi 3 years ago. Then it was natural my involvement with the maven-bundle-plugin and tycho and m2e. Besides the fact that was a kind problematic at the beginning, currently we have