Server-Side Eclipse Gains Momentum

Eclipse is mostly known for their favourite Java IDE and the Rich Client Platform. From my point of view the Eclipse platform can be used far beyond that, especially for server-side applications or server-parts of classical client-server apps. And indeed, during the past weeks and month more and more people are looking at the Eclipse Platform to build server-side applications. They are looking at the platform to componentize their applications using the Equinox OSGi runtime as well as to utilize the Extension-Point framework to make their application structure more flexible and open for extensions. Wouldn't it be nice to implement web-applications using extension-points, plugins and all the other headless features of the Eclipse platform?
The answer is YES!!! I collected a number of useful links to help you to use the Eclipse platform on the server-side:

• The Equinox Server-Side OSGi Incubator Project: This is probably the best starting point to figure out how to embed OSGi into a web container like Tomcat of Jetty.
  
• Online article: "Eclipse goes Server-side!", including an example: A tutorial like article providing a nice overview how to use the technology developed so far in the incubator project.
  
• Equinox Newsgroup: There are a lot of interesting postings regarding the usage of OSGi within web- or app-containers and much more.

And don't forget to join the "Server-Side Eclipse" talk at the upcoming Eclipse-Forum-Europe.

Eclipse is mostly known for their favourite Java IDE and the Rich Client Platform. From my point of view the Eclipse platform can be used far beyond that, especially for server-side applications or server-parts of classical client-server apps. And indeed, during the past weeks and month more and more people are looking at the Eclipse Platform to build server-side applications. They are looking at the platform to componentize their applications using the Equinox OSGi runtime as well as to utilize the Extension-Point framework to make their application structure more flexible and open for extensions. Wouldn't it be nice to implement web-applications using extension-points, plugins and all the other headless features of the Eclipse platform?
The answer is YES!!! I collected a number of useful links to help you to use the Eclipse platform on the server-side:

• The Equinox Server-Side OSGi Incubator Project: This is probably the best starting point to figure out how to embed OSGi into a web container like Tomcat of Jetty.
  
• Online article: "Eclipse goes Server-side!", including an example: A tutorial like article providing a nice overview how to use the technology developed so far in the incubator project.
  
• Equinox Newsgroup: There are a lot of interesting postings regarding the usage of OSGi within web- or app-containers and much more.

And don't forget to join the "Server-Side Eclipse" talk at the upcoming Eclipse-Forum-Europe.

Server-Side Eclipse Gains Momentum