About Glyn Normington
Glyn leads the Eclipse Virgo open source project. He also works on OSGi standards for SpringSource/VMware. Previously he spent 26 years working for IBM on graphics software, transactional middleware, and Java runtimes.
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Stumbling towards a better design
Some programs have a clear design and coding new features is quick and easy. Other programs are a patchwork quilt of barely comprehensible fragments, bug fixes, and glue. If you have ...

Extenders: Pattern or Anti-Pattern?
The extender pattern has become popular in recent years and has even been utilised in OSGi standards such as the Blueprint service and the Web Applications specification. In Virgo, ...

OSGi case study: a modular vert.x
OSGi enables Java code to be divided cleanly into modules known as bundles with access to code and resources controlled by a class loader for each bundle. OSGi services provide an ...



