This is a thorough book on OSGi (though Equinox biased) that I recommend to anyone who is using OSGi or wants to know more about it. You can buy it at d.punkt. I hope they translate it in English soon. I already read most of the text during my Christmas vacation to help them with a review. Gerd had already shown me on the first day the thank you section. They had been really nice, and made the thank you in Dutch! Great work! It is great to finally being able to point to a good OSGi book.
JAX is a great conference, very well organized. Well, there is so much to do that I'll keep it short. Though there is one observation, unrelated to OSGi, I can't help myself making. On the way back with Ryan Air I observed that people can be incredibly rude at jumping the queue, and not just the one that look like it, even elegantly looking older people showed an incredible rudeness. Though I admire Ryan Air for many things, their queue management is non existent, seeming to call out the worst behavior in people. I figured people behaved so badly so that to get the best seats in the plane. However, when I boarded at the end of the queue the emergency seats in the middle were still mostly free. So why are people so much in a hurry that they are jumping the queue? One day I have to debug this, but now back to the build!
Peter Kriens
P.S. Talking about books, you can now also order the specification (core + compendium) in printed form for a special price.
That really has an extremely unfortunate direct english interpretation of the title.
ReplyDeleteHi Peter, I have to thank your for your sessions. It was really inspiring. Also the session about classloading and visibility by martin lippert with your first level support ;-). I had the chance to read some lines of the book at the conference and it seems to be a good completion to the osgi reference documentation.
ReplyDeletecheers,
René Gröschke
Ps.: Dealing with a defect air conditioning and overcrowded trains, our homeyard journey wasn't much better than yours ;-)
Hi Peter,
ReplyDeleteIs there a timeline for this book to come in English.
We certainly need a good book on OSGi very soon.
Why don't you consider writing one :)
Regards,
Krishnaveni Krishnarajah