We tried Java OSGi... And it was painful. This post is not about why we chose OSGi and not the alternative JPMS. It is about everything that factually went wrong, with a healthy dose of (very) tired ranting.| enioka
This article explains the meaning of the "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Stream handler unavailable due to: null" error that you may encounter when using Apache Felix.| Andreas Veithen's blog
Understand how StAX works in an OSGi environment and learn which bundles you need to deploy in order to use a StAX implementation other than the one provided by the JRE.| Andreas Veithen's blog
This article describes the problems encountered while attempting to deploy the WebSphere EJB thin client in ServiceMix and how to solve them.| Andreas Veithen's blog
To change the StAX implementation used in a Java EE application it should normally be enough to simply add the JAR with the third party StAX implementation (such as Woodstox) to the application. This works as expected on most application servers, except on WebSphere. In this blog post I will explain why this is so and what this tells us about the internals of WebSphere.| Andreas Veithen's blog
Discover some of the pitfalls when using Pax Exam in a Maven build and learn how to avoid them.| Andreas Veithen's blog