Category: jsr-277

  • OSGi vs. JSR-277

    I checked out the OSGi presentation from the Parleys site http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/PARLEYS/Spring+OSGi. Wow. I haven’t really spent any time thinking about this stuff in the past, but it seems that yet again the JSR process is trying to formalize something that doesn’t need it. OSGi seems to be a much lighter, more powerful model whereby you […]

  • An end to classloader nightmares

    I have been going through some of the presentations from the Javapolis 2006 conference, and I stumbled upon a talk by Stanley Ho from Sun Microsystems about JSR-277 Java Modules – http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/PARLEYS/JSR-277+Java+Module+System. The spec finally provides Java programmers the ability to programmatically enforce version dependencies within their code. No more classpath hell!! Woohoo! Once you […]