DevVM Part 1 – Gerrit on Ubuntu 12.04 Server

I’m currently working on a little development VM and want to share some of my insides I gain and how I managed to get things work. The series will start with the tutorial to install Gerrit. What is Gerrit? Gerrit provides a powerful server to integrate a code-review process in your git-driven development process. These […]

Maven – Tycho, Java, Scala and APT

This tutorial shows a small project which is build with maven-tycho and the following requirements: Mixed Java / Scala project Eclipse plugin deployment Eclipse Annotation Processing (APT) Manifest-first approach Java 7 / Scala 2.9.2 That doesn’t sound too hard. In fact it isn’t, if you are familiar with maven and how tycho works. Setting up […]

Software Development at Universities

A lot of frameworks and applications are developed at universities. Some have practical reasons, some are developed to support researching activities or are the main goal of the research process and weren’t even planned at the beginning. Developing is good as students need to gain practices, because without practice you never get a good software developer, engineer or architect. However […]

Deploying Eclipse RCP – The hard way

Today I had the most painful PDE headless build ever. This post just describes what I had to do to deploy an Eclipse RCP application. The Application and Technology Stack My application, Medmon, contains about 20 bundles. Most of the are written in plain Java (JDK 7). Some of them are mixed projects with Scala […]

Akka and OSGi development in Eclipse

This short tutorial is about how to run akka in an OSGi environment. I faced a lot of problems deploying in this in plain eclipse without maven, bnd or sbt. This example is done with the java-API, however it is also possible with Scala. Requirements Eclipse Helios 3.6.2 with Scala-Plugin akka-1.1-modules distribution Configuration First we […]