Thursday, May 2, 2019

Chicago JUG OSGi Meetup -- Wed., May 22


On Wednesday, May 22, the Chicago JUG will be hosting an evening with the OSGi Alliance Expert Group.  The event will be held 6:00-8:00 pm and you may register here.

You won't want to miss this event and hear from two members of the OSGi Alliance Expert Group -- Raymond Augé, Sr. Software Architect at Liferay, Inc. and BJ Hargrave, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, who will present on three topics:

Presentations:
1)      OSGi CDI Integration Specification 
       (Speaker: Raymond Augé)
The OSGi Alliance has developed a specification describing integration between OSGi and CDI. The combination of these two powerful development technologies opens the door to new possibilities. This talk will walk through the most essential features of the specification and show some code and running examples.

2)      Building OSGi Projects with Bnd in Maven (Speaker: Raymond Augé)
The Bndtools.org team has spent a number of years focused on improving support for OSGi development in Maven. This talk will demonstrate the latest innovations demonstrating features such as quick setup, minimal configuration, use of bundle annotations, BOM support, testing and running.

3)      Promises in Java: Using Promises to recover from failures (Speaker: BJ Hargrave)
Communications is error prone. Connections time out, servers fail to respond, returned data can be incomplete or corrupted. Bnd, the OSGi tooling project, has an HttpClient class which is used for communications including with remote repositories like Maven/Nexus and P2 repositories. The Bnd CI builds started having significant failures due to communications problems with the Eclipse download servers, so with some light code restructuring, I was able to add retry support to HttpClient using the Promises package from OSGi.  This session will take a look at the Promises package and how it was easily used to recover from communications failures.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Raymond Augé (@rotty3000)
LifeRay, Inc.
Raymond is a Sr. Software Architect at Liferay, Inc. As an Apache Software Foundation member and PMC of Apache Aries, Apache Felix and Apache Geronimo projects, committer on the Bndtools.org project, committer and company representative at the Eclipse Foundation and OSGi Alliance Board member and Enterprise Expert Group co-chair, Ray demonstrates a strong passion for open source and open standards.

BJ Hargrave (@bjhargrave)
IBM
BJ is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. He leads the development of OSGi technology since its inception and is currently CTO of the OSGi Alliance and chair of the OSGi Core Platform Expert Group. He is also a committer on the Eclipse Equinox project and the Bndtools project.

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