Eclipse Swordfish – An SOA Runtime Environment

In this screencast, Ricco Deutscher or the Eclipse Swordfish project walks us through the architecture, intentions, and road-map for the OSGi-tools SOA runtime, Swordfish. As Ricco outlines, the Swordfish came about from the desire to benefit from combining the use of JBI, SCA, and OSGi. JBI lends a good packing methodology, SCA helps with the execution of service components, and OSGi adds in the dynamic functionality needed and helps glue it all together.

Disclaimer: Eclipse is a client and sponsored this screencast.

Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), part 2 – Demo

In this two part screencast, Jochen Krause and I talk about the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform, or RAP for short. RAP is a front-end framework that uses the Eclipse RCP programming model to create Ajax front-ends in Java. In the first part, Jochen gives us an overview of RAP and how it fits into the overall Eclipse runtime and then shows a few demos of using RAP in the second part.

Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), part 1 – Overview

In this two part screencast, Jochen Krause and I talk about the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform, or RAP for short. RAP is a front-end framework that uses the Eclipse RCP programming model to create Ajax front-ends in Java. In the first part, Jochen gives us an overview of RAP and how it fits into the overall Eclipse runtime and then shows a few demos of using RAP in the second part.

The JIRA Connector for Mylyn, Demo

In this demo, I talk with Mik Kersten who demonstrates the JIRA connector for Mylyn. Mik shows us how the JIRA connector is used to provide a rich, desktop interface for the JIRA issue tracker and then shows how the "self micro-managing" features of Mylyn layer on-top of JIRA.

Also, be sure to check out the previous RedMonkTV episode that goes more in-depth on Mylyn.

Disclaimer: Atlassian is a client and sponsored this video.

Eclipse Equinox and Component Oriented Development, Part 2 – Demo

In this two part screencast, Jeff McAffer and I talk about component oriented design with Eclipse Equinox. In the first part, Jeff lays out a brief introduction to Equinox and we discuss, essentially, what it’s like to code with OSGi bundles and services. In the second part, Jeff uses a bundle distribution problem to illustrate factoring a code-base into bundles and demonstrate what OSGi coding feels like. For a higher resolution image, be sure to select the full screen mode. Also, there are many other formats and sized of the video available.

Eclipse Equinox and Component Oriented Development, Part 1 – Overview

In this two part screencast, Jeff McAffer and I talk about component oriented design with Eclipse Equinox. In the first part, Jeff lays out a brief introduction to Equinox and we discuss, essentially, what it's like to code with OSGi bundles and services. In the second part, Jeff uses a bundle distribution problem to illustrate factoring a code-base into bundles and demonstrate what OSGi coding feels like.

Disclaimer: Eclipse is a client and sponsored this video.