Agenda AT3 - 9am to 12.30pm

Speaker: Benjamin Cabé - Eclipse expert, Top Contributor 2009 / Anyware Technologies

This workshop is intended to be a very practical and pragmatic introduction to the OSGi framework.
It aims at presenting the core concepts of component-oriented development, and how they are implemented in OSGi.
Prerequisites: Good knowledge of the Java programming language. No specific Eclipse plug-in development experience needed
 

• Component-based programming introduction
• Main differences with OO programming
• Best practices
• Overview of the OSGi framework
• Main concepts: bundles, services, versioning, ...
• General architecture
•  Design modules
• How to design a "good" component?
• How to design a "good" API?
• Exposing services
• Design... dynamic modules!
• Bundles lifecycle
• Using the ServiceTracker
• Declarative Services
• Introduction to the OSGi usage in a Web context