In this interview from EclipseCon 2009, Michael Coté talks with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, Coté starts by asking Jeff to give an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, they speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications. Also, Jeff mentions the p2 and other sub and related projects. Since there’s always great interest in p2, Coté asks Jeff to give us more details on it, especially how it can be used to assemble and deploy different packages of Eclipse components – for example, Eclipse IDE plugins. Getting back to the server-side aspects of Equinox, Jeff tells us how Equinox has been fairing out in the field. He goes over a long, impressive list of middleware and application server projects and products that are using it. Next, Coté asks what the experience to transitioning to OSGi-driven development has looked like in practice.
