After two years working on Osmorc, I’m leaving this project. It’s been an exciting time. Especially at the beginning working on Osmorc was a very rewarding task. Finding out, how OSGi could work with IDEA and then seeing that it actually did work, was a great pleasure. And people actually used it. Though there was [...]
I’m an eBook fan. I started reading eBooks at the end of 2003. I was searching for a good English dictionary that would run on my Palm Tungsten T. Back then I was reading books made of paper and most of them were written in English. Though I’m German most of the books I read [...]
Yesterday JetBrains released the first milestone of the next version of IntelliJ IDEA – codenamed Maia. One of the new features of Maia is “OSGi Support”. The OSGi support in Maia is provided by a bundled version of Osmorc. The bundling of Osmorc has several effects on Osmorc. One of the effects is that the [...]
Osmorc, a plugin that enables development of OSGi based applications with IntelliJ IDEA and that is developed by Jan Thomä and me, won a “Honorable Mention” prize in the “IntelliJIDEAL Plugin 2008 contest”. Although working on Osmorc itself and the positive and helpful feedback from its users is already a great motivation, the recognition and [...]