Welcome to Person Manager, a dynamic OSGi Swing application

This demo application shows how to use OSGi Declarative Services (DS), Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring DM), iPOJO and Guice/Peaberry together with Swing UI. The goal of this project is to share best practices when it comes to dynamic OSGi-based applications. Also, an experimental approach to enhance OSGi DS with annotations is part of the project, see A4DS.

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Enjoy!

Kai Tödter

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News

• Updated target platform: Equinox 3.5.2, OSGi 4.2, DS 1.2, Spring 3.0.0, Spring DM 2.0.0M1, iPOJO 1.6.0
• New tree view using the experimental A4DS (Annotations for OSGi Declarative Services)
• New tree view implemented using iPOJO (XML and annotations)
  • The headless build does the iPOJO jar file manipulation
• Experimetal tree view using Google Guice + Peaberry for OSGi service injection

Running the Demo

• You can  launch the demo using Java WebStart

Subversion Access

• Anonymous svn access available at  https://max-server.myftp.org/svn/pm/PM/trunk/pm, just get all projects

Downloads

• If you don't have svn access, you can download the latest sources and binaries  here

Building the Demo

• Get all the projects from svn
• Open Eclipse
• Open all pm projects
• Set the target platform by opening default.target in com.siemens.ct.pm.target and clicking the link "Set as target platform" in the upper right corner.
• Launch "PM Swing OSGi Demo"
• Play around starting and stopping the bundles, like
  • com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.actions.person_1.0.0
  • com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.views.treeview_1.0.0
  • com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.views.tableview_1.0.0
  • com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.views.model.minimal_1.0.0
  • com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.views.model.basic_1.0.0 and watch the dynamic change of the Swing UI
• You can also switch to the new bundle view and select or deselect bundles
• If you want to use the nice Nimbus Look & Feel, run the demo with JDK 6 Update 10
• The bundle com.siemens.ct.pm.extender implements the extender pattern. The bundle com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.actions.vcard uses this mechnism to declare a action contribution using a new manifest header
• Integration of Spring Dynamic Modules, the bundle com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.actions.save and com.siemens.ct.pm.ui.views.tree.dm use Spring DM

Compatibility

• The current version is compatible to Equinox 3.5.1
• The project com.siemens.ct.pm.target contains a complete target platform for this project
  • All necessary equinox bundles as well as the source bundles.
  • All necessary bundles for Spring Dynamic Modules, iPOJO and Peaberry
  • A target definition file (default.target) which has to be used to set the target platform.

Licenses

• All Person manager project sources are licensed under  EPL
• The nice icons from  FamFamFam are licensed under the  Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

Organizations

•  Siemens Corporate Technology, suppliers of Person Manager support and sponsors of the project.

Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
•  The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
•  Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.