Equinox p2: provisioning your world

Jeff McAffer

Ganymede Talks · Long
Thursday, 11:00, 50 minutes | Bürgersaal 1

Jeff McAffer

Provisioning complex software systems is hard. Eclipse has traditionally used a "zip and ship" approach with its attendant simplicity and short-comings. Ganymede included a new provisioning platform, p2, from the Equinox project. p2 introduces sophisticated infrastructure for full lifecycle provisioning of Eclipse and non-Eclipse resources. This talk introduces the p2 architecture, its current functionality and future directions. We also demonstrate some of the more interesting capabilities.

Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi, RCP and Orbit teams and is the Founder of Code 9. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). He co-leads the RT Project PMC and is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools Project PMC and the Eclipse Architecture Council and is a Director on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested all aspects of Eclipse componentry from developing and building bundles to deploying, installing and ultimately running them. Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM and work in distributed/parallel OO computing (Server Smalltalk, massively parallel Smalltalk, etc) as well as expert systems, meta-level architectures and a PhD at the University of Tokyo.

Equinox p2: provisioning your world

Jeff McAffer

Ganymede Talks · Long Thursday, 11:00, 50 minutes | Bürgersaal 1

Ganymede Talks · Long
Thursday, 11:00, 50 minutes | Bürgersaal 1