To gain hands-on experience with my favorite Java technologies Spring/OSGi i was looking for an OpenSource project that could benefit from using those technologies.

With the idea in mind to start blogging about this migration-project i stumbled over Pebble. Pebble is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool. With Pebble installed my search was over before i started digging deep into sourceforge and Co. You can see an example blog here.

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• First experiments with the installed Red5 server.
  First experiments with the installed Red5 server. The oflaDemo streams from data files inside the exploded war. In this experiment i want to stream from outside the Red5 installation. Take a deep breath and dive into the code of the Red5 server: Some ...
• Installing Red5 on a Linux system
  Building and installing a Red5 server on a Linux box. Adding a new user First we create a new user for the Red5 service. server:~ adduser red5 and deactivate the interactive shell. red5:x:10xy:10xy:,,,...
• Spring Security 3.0.0 in an OSGi/Web environment
  Lately Spring Security 3.0.0 Released. A good reason to free my pebble workspace from the dust of late 2009. How about using a current spring-security in an OSGi/Web environment like this pebble installation? Very good news in web.xml everything looks ...
• When continuous builds go mad...
  On a build server far, far away there was a long running build blocking our continuous integration for hours. One step in our build was waiting for infinity... nobody in the team has access to the build server to kill the mad process. A fortune gave ...
• Building A SCRUM StoryCards Generator - Roundup
  In Part I we squeezed raw data out of an Excel sheet containing the SCRUM story cards. With a little bit of groovy this raw data got converted to XML. I the 2nd Part we created the XML needed as input for our PdfGenerator. In Part III we pimped an ...