Just updated the fresh-out-the-oven Google Maps. 5.0. Simply Awesome. The 3d images of NYC buildings, tilting, rotating, much smoother zoom operations, and better offline support make it a highly recommended update
After fiddling with the First Bundles that "Hello World"-ed upon Activation, You want to see more interactivity in OSGi. Although Using OSGi for an interactive Command Line Application would be like this one would be, well, a callable over-kill, I am going to start with an example and Expand it in later posts. So, please Welcome CommandProvider. CommandProvider is an EQUINOX specific API for extending the Console. This basic Example illustrates how to get a command from console and do something in java and also gets your feet wet on Service Registry package com.so.examples.commandconsole; import org. eclipse .osgi.framework.console .CommandInterpreter; import org.eclipse.osgi.framework.console.CommandProvider; public class DisplayMessageCommand implements CommandProvider { public void _say(CommandInterpreter ci) { ci.print("You said:" + ci.nextArgument()); } @Override public String getHelp() { return "\tsay - repeats what you say\n"; } }