The Eclipse 3.0 platform: Adopting OSGi technology

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-299

  Gruber, Olivier ^a   Hargrave, B J ^b   McAffer, Jeff ^c   Rapicault, Pascal ^c   Watson, Thomas ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METADATA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPEN SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; STANDARDS; USER INTERFACES; XML;

DYNAMIC PLUG-IN MANAGEMENT; RICH CLIENT PLATFORM (RCP); RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT; SERVICE PLATFORM; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ECLIPSE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 20444409093     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.442.0289     Document Type: Article

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