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Eclipse Application Container: Not Just for UI Anymore

Thomas Watson (IBM)

OSGi DevCon · Short Talk

Tuesday, 10:20, 10 minutes | Room 209/210 |

The Eclipse modular platform is traditionally thought of as a platform for developing rich client applications, but in fact the Eclipse application container can be used to launch most any type of application. The Eclipse application container is an implementation the Application Admin specification from the OSGi Alliance. In this talk we will describe how you can develop other non-traditional Eclipse applications, such as headless or server-side applications, and how Application Admin can be used to launch and control your applications.

Thomas co-leads the Equinox Project at Eclipse. Thomas has 10 years of experience as an IBM software architect and developer, and is currently working for IBM Lotus. Focus is on modularity and OSGi Framework design and development. He is the lead developer for the Equinox OSGi Framework implementation in Eclipse. He is a participant in the OSGi specification process. In particular, he has participated in specifying the modularity features of the OSGi R4 and R4.1 specification. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas El Paso.