I’ve never done this myself and I’m not sure what kind of framework exists for integrating servers. If I were you I would get the source for a project that manages servers (e.g. Eclipse Virgo) and see how they’re doing it. And let me know how it goes :-)

— Patrick

I am facing one problem in one RCP application. My application is a server dependent application. Its a simple J2EE application which will run in Application Server, but as pre the requirement I need to add server control in my RCP application also, like user can start the server , stop the server or can change the server password all those things. Some thing like we generally we do in Server View of Eclipse IDE (I mean to say when we add the application server in IDE), only difference will be in eclipse IDE we can add the Server in server view as per our requirement and multiple times , but in this case there will be only one server and one ear file deployed in it. Is that possible in any way to extend that “Server View” in own RCP application , so that the user user can have some portion of server Admin control in RCP application or is there any other way to add Server Admin panel in own RCP application. Please help me out . Thanks a lot in advance.

One thing I find as a general rule, though, is that when a company is selling software the process is usually much more rational and healthy. If I was looking for a job, I’d make sure that the software I was writing was viewed as a profit engine and not an overhead cost.

Regards,

— Patrick

I encountered your blog after subscribing for the Planet OSGi feed aggregator. Having found the “Why OSGi is Important?” post to be the clearest answer to the question I’ve seen, I caught up with the rest of your posts available through Planet OSGi, one of them being this post.

The phrase “management knows how to LET developers be successful” (emphasis mine) caught my eye. I’ve spent some years working in companies where projects would fail despite their software developers’ best efforts. This seemed mainly due to project stakeholders and management changing core requirements three quarters into development, telling developers how to do their jobs (down to imposing specific technical solutions), cancelling the projects, or letting key developers go around the time completion would actually seem in sight.

If you ever find some time to write a blog post that deviates from your main topic of modular technologies I think it’d be interesting to read about your encounters with software project managers who know how to let developers succeed, and how they’re doing it. Every aspiring development team manager would find such information useful.

Regards,

Boris