Virgo RT from Eclipse Summit Europe 2010

Chris Frost
Eclipse Virgo RT

Agenda
Virgo and Gemini at Eclipse
A tour of Virgo
Current status
Demo time....

What is Virgo?
“Dynamic Enterprise Application Platform”
Based on SpringSource dm Server 2.0
Not to be confused with Spring DM (Gemini Blueprint)
Objectives:
Better OSGi platform, extensible
Migration of Java EE and Web apps
TCCL and LTW weaving support

What is Gemini?
“ Enterprise Modules Project”
Gemini Web is the RFC66 ref impl
Built on Tomcat
Option to use Jetty coming soon
Virgo uses Gemini for web and blueprint support

Virgo and EclipseRT

Virgo Tour

Virgo Externals

Artifacts
Identified by type, name, version
Types:
bundle - OSGi bundle
configuration - properties file
plan - list of artifacts
par - container of artifacts

Plans
XML
List artifacts by type, name, version range
Scoping
Atomicity
PARs
Contain artifacts
Scoped, atomic

Scoping

Repositories
Artifacts indexed by type, name, version
Supports queries e.g. by version range
Repository types:
External
Watched
Remote
Repositories may be chained

Repository Chaining
remote

Pipelines

Regions

All code now in Eclipse GIT
Exited incubation
All repositories can be checked out and built
Virgo Nightly Builds on Hudson (phew)
Baseline release (2.1.0.RELEASE) now out!
Current Status

Eclipse Tooling
SpringSource Tool Suite supports Virgo servers
STS 2.5.0
http://www.springsource.com/products/sts
dm tools update site (requires Eclipse JEE)
http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/update/e3.6

Further Information
http://www.eclipse.org/virgo
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Virgo/Community
#VirgoRT
Download Virgo 2.1.0 and try it out
http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/download

Virgo RT from Eclipse Summit Europe 2010

by Christopher Frost on Nov 02, 2010

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