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On: R-OSGi, or how to call OSGi services remotely: Part I (Post); "Hi Wycee, Don't worry about too many comments :) Sorry,..."

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On: J2ME-style Location API on BUG (Post); "wwward, based on tests I'd say "yes" but I'm not..."

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Really, Apache Vysper, Really?!!?

I get to dip my toes into the middleware pool again. Fun fun fun! Apache Mina looks like an interesting and lightweight server platform. Also XMPP seems cool, even though XML is SO 2005. May as well call it CSV at this point. But only after 14 or so nested directories I get to some client code that tests Vyspers's PubSub support. Really, is all this nesting necessary? Is there some bonus pool in the...

J2ME-style Location API on BUG

Recently while wrangling with an internal project that required some basic location functionality, I became pretty intimate with the BUG location API. While the basics of retrieving location information from the GPS device is pretty straightforward using the existing API, other use cases are not so easy. Additionally, the API seems to leak more NMEA complexity that is really necessary. So, I decided to make it better. This is when I discovered openlapi, a FOSS...