* Posts by Colin Renouf

2 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Dec 2007

Android tunes into OSGi

Colin Renouf

Eclipse3.1.2/Equinox is also the core of the WebSphere Application Server 6.1

I've written a lot on this for IBM magazines and a RedBook (to be published soon), but Eclipse 3.1.2 / Equinox / OSGI is also the core of WAS, and provides benefit to its architecture. Check out the plugin and configuration directories, and the OSGI console shell script in the bin directory...

IE's Acid trip back to conflict

Colin Renouf
Jobs Halo

Maybe sites won't be customised for IE now and break other browsers

As a developer I usually have to customise for IE, but then get fed up that sites that are customised for IE won't work with browsers that do follow standards. Maybe more sites will now properly support Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.....

In all fairness to them, Vista is over complex, but MS are getting better on the standards front. AD is now properly RFC compliant for Kerberos (RFC 1510) and POSIX User representation (RFC2307)......