p2 community contribution

If you are interested in contributing to p2 during the Helios (3.6.) cycle, please add your areas of interest on the wiki. It can either be new functionalities as well as things that you would like to see improved.

Expressing your desire early will allow for other contributors to potentially join you and for the current set of p2 committers to plan for coming contributions.

Thanks in advance.

p2 EclipseCon 09 slides posted

I have just posted the slides for the talk and tutorial I gave on p2 at EclispeCon 2009.

The talk goes over the p2 functionalities from a runtime perspective and the build / dev time aspects.

The tutorial covers all the major aspects of p2. It ranges from the simple usage of product delivery to an in-depth presentation of the p2 concepts.

Enjoy!

p2 metadata and resolution detailed

Daniel Le Berre (one of the author of SAT4J) and myself have a paper accepted to IWOCE. The paper focuses on the dependency management aspect of p2. It describes the metadata used to express dependencies, the overall functioning of our resolver and a description of our propositional constraints based encoding. To conclude we describe the challenges to address in future releases.

The paper is available at http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/spip/publications/iwoce907-leberre.pdf

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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