Bernd Kolb

We are going to fix the program for our Demo Camp at SAP on May 19th in Walldorf coming Monday morning. So if you have still a proposal in mind now is the time to post it into the wiki

We are pretty exited how many people want to join us. The location we’ve chosen can host 200 people. The idea has been that we invite 100 people from outside SAP and another 100 from inside. The internal registration has been overbooked within only one week without making too much noise about it. And also from external we have already more than 50 people joining. We definitely will be at the venue’s limit. I guess this will be the largest Eclipse Demo Camp ever   After the demos we will go for some chatting and have free beer. Doesn’t that sound great? So if you want to join us, there are still a few seats left. Just let us know via the Eclipse Wiki Page. Please also tell us whether you are planning to participate in the Stammtisch afterwards.

I am looking forward to see you there!

On last Thursday, I had the very last talk on OSGi for Eclipse Developers together with Chris. We were talking about thing many Eclipse developers don’t get in touch with every day. Among them Import Package, Services, DS and some standard services which might be useful in Eclipse based applications. The slides can be found here

On May 19th, SAP is organizing an Eclipse Demo Camp in Walldorf at SAP’s headquater. There are has been set up a website where you can register.  The venue is limited to a maximum audience of 100 people.  So we are really looking forward to a quite large Demo Camp

At the moment we already have some demos and we are in contact with some other people willing to show their cool stuff. Are you interested in showing some cool stuff you are working on? Just let us know via the same registration page.

Right after the Demo Camp there will be an Eclipse Stammtisch in a nice pub close around. We are announcing the exact location soon. Please let us know if you want to come and join us for the Stammtisch as well. As a hint, Eclipse is paying for the beer

Yesterday, Gerd, Nils, Matthias and I had a tutorial on OGSi. Actually it has been the first time that we met in person since our book was published in Spring last year! The tutorial had been about 45 attendees which I think is quite good. We started with an introduction into the OSGi Service Platfrom, explained bundles and their lifecycle and concluded with an introduction to OSGi Services. All examples were based on Equinox and Sherlog, an open source log viewer written by Gerd and Nils. In the near future, you will be able to find more information on this project here. I think the tutorial went quite well. In the end we had a nice discussion on how OSGi is used today in Enterprise Applications. The German slide deck can be downloaded here.

On Thursday I am having a talk together with Chris and Martin. There we will give a short introduction into OSGi for Eclipse Developers. Many Eclipse developers know the Module Sytem, but the is much more to discover. So come and see

After a first try two years ago, I have revieved my blog.  I hope to be a bit more active this time

Have fun!