When I was at EclipseCon this year, I sat down with Oliver Wolf from Sopera.de to talk about the newly announced Swordfish, SOA project. Having talked about Swordfish before in RedMonkTV, I ask Oliver to quickly catch us up since last we talked. They’ve announced their release date (which has occurred since this was filmed), including all the compliance and IP cleaning.

Oliver then gives us a very quick overview of Swordfish: a runtime for implementing SOAs. I then ask Oliver what Swordfish’s “take” on SOA is, that is, what’s it’s general philosophy, so to speak of what the definition of an SOA. As Oliver explains, it starts from a decentralized ESB.

We then discuss what this decentralization means for Swordfish’s various SOA components. I then ask how Swordfish came to be and where the project is now.

Getting back to the type of SOA that Swordfish embodies, I ask Oliver what types of workloads Swordfish is suited for. Having announced Swordfish at this year’s EclipseCon, along with more than five sessions on the topic, I ask Oliver what how it’s been received and what people have been asking. Finally, I ask Oliver to tell us how Swordfish fits into the overall Eclipse Runtime strategy.

Disclosure: The Eclipse Foundation is a client, sponsored this video, and paid T&E to EclipseCon.

While at EclipseCon this year, I had the chance to talk with Greg Wilkins and Adam Lieber of Webtide. Just the night before they’d checked code into the Eclipse Foundation repositories to finish up adding Jetty as an Eclipse project. We start out discussing Jetty’s new Eclipse home.

I then ask if Jetty is still a small, embedded web server. While it sounds like it’s grown up since the days long ago when I used, as they say, adding it to Eclipse has given them the option to re-slim down and componentize Jetty even more.

We then talk about different scenarios Jetty can be, and is, used in, esp. as a component for application servers and surprisingly in Android and Windows Mobile phones. The phone use-case in intriguing so I ask them for some examples of how it might be used.

Next up, I ask them why they choose to dock themselves in Eclipse. Along with this, we talk about the way Jetty is being run in Eclipse as components and how that relates to them being assembled in the existing CodeHaus repository.

To close out, pulling up the to Eclipse in general, I ask them how Jetty will fit into the general Eclipse Runtime projects and vision.

As a post-script, not too long after we recorded this video, the Webtide folks discovered that Google AppEngine is using Jetty to aid in Java support.

Disclosure: The Eclipse Foundation is a client, sponsored this video, and paid T&E to EclipseCon.

In this interview from EclipseCon, I talk with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, I start by asking him to give us an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, we speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications. Also, Jeff mentions the p2 and other sub and related projects. Since there’s always great interest in it, I ask Jeff to give us more details on p2, esp. how it can be used to assemble and deploy different packages of Eclipse components, for example, of Eclipse IDE plugins.

Getting back to the server-side aspects of Equinox, I ask Jeff to tell us how Equinox has been fairing out in the field. He goes over a long, impressive list of middleware and application server projects and products that are using it. Next, I ask what the experience to transitioning to OSGi-driven development has looked in practice.

Finally, since we last talked Jeff has moved from IBM to his own company, Code9, and then to EclipseSource. I ask him to tell us all about that.

Disclosure: The Eclipse Foundation is a client, sponsored this video, and paid T&E to EclipseCon.