OSGi DevCon Europe 2009 slides

I have finally uploaded the slides of my OSGi DevCon talk on slideshare. The presentation goes over some of the p2 concepts and talks for the first time about 3 different ways to setup p2 depending on the constraints of your environment: milli, micro, nano.

p2, modular provisioning for OSGi

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p2 at OSGi DevCon Europe / Jazoon

If everything goes well (understand my travel request gets approved), I will be presenting p2 at OSGi DevCon Europe / Jazoon in Zurich on June 22nd.

If you want to meet to chat about p2, build or OSGi, please drop me a note (esp. if you are an IBM Rational customer) and we will schedule something during my short visit in Switzerland.

What is the Galileo repo?

The Galileo repository is a one stop shop for all the bits and pieces of this release and thus facilitates consumers life. It guarantees by construction that all the pieces that are available from it are meant to work together.

However, this does not mean that you will be able to select all the entries from the repository and successfully install them on top your SDK. Why? Because this repository contains things like SDKs and runtimes (e.g. Riena, Swordfish, etc.) that are meant to be installed in your target rather than your running instance.

p2, call for community testing

During 3.5, a release put under the theme of robustness for our team, p2 went through a lot of changes: new UI, improved error reporting, more robust downloads, improved transactionality of the installation,.. the list is endless. About 900 bugs have been closed.

However, in order to avoid releasing 3.5 with big issues (which we think/hope we don't have), I'm calling out to you to try out p2 by downloading RC1 and give it a spin and a hard time, and report any problem in the p2 component here.

Thanks in advance.