GlassFish at enterprise OSGi face2face event - Meeting with OSGi Experts

Meeting with OSGi Experts   Although I had interacted with a number of active members of OSGi [1] expert group, last week I had the opportunity to meet some of these experts at an OSGi Enterprise Expert Group face2face event held at LinkedIn's Mountain View office. This is also the first time I met Richard S. Hall, the Felix guy (don't confuse with a very active Felix [2] committer by name Felix Meschberger). Richard has been involved in modularisation efforts for last decade or so. GlassFish team owes him and the Felix community a lot. Although Richard later on became part of Sun GlassFish team, we continue to engage with Felix community in the open forum. In the same event, I got to meet another Felix member by name Stuart Mcculloch, who has helped us a lot in our use of maven bnd plugin [3]. Stuart now works for Sonatype, where he is working on things like adding OBR support to Nexus [4]. This is also the first time I met Peter Kriens [5], B J Hargrave [6]. The other IBM rep that I met was Tim Ward, who is actively involved in project Aries. During dinner time, I got to talk to Jboss micro kernel engineers: Thomas Diesler and Aleš Justin. Although I had come across Thomas in Felix forum, I thought I was meeting Ales for the first time, but Ales surprised me when he said that we once were on the same phone conference to discuss about one of the Weld class loading issues we had encountered whil...

Date: March, 22 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/ss141213/archive/2010/03/22/glassfish-enterprise-osgi-face2face-event-meeting-osgi-experts

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