This morning (PST), Roger Sullivan announced Lberty's new project called openLiberty.org. This community oriented website aims at providing developers and architects with open source implementations of Liberty's suite of identity protocols. I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of dicussion happening there.

tag: Liberty Alliance, Identity, Open Source

Since I am using VMWare a lot for all kinds of testing, I am really happy to have found this simple procedure: it allows you to extend the Boot partition of your Windows box without having to resort to 3rd party tools.

Now - here is something quite interesting about Java directions: I was only remotely aware of JSR 277 - Java Modules - and took really no big interest in it. However, this effort might solve some of the self-inflicted problems that I had to deal with regarding OSGi bundles.

JSR 277 (which is currently in early draft) aims at provinding a simple class versioning mechanism that allows some of the features of OSGi bundles. Stanley Ho has written some explanatory material on this JSR - from what I could gather, it should be - at least principally - not too hard for OSGi to deal with Java Modules. Now if we only could get it working the other way round ...

tag: JSR 277, OSGi