A couple of months ago I worked on a single sign-on (SSO) for a Windows client and server made in Java. The scenario was the following:

DeployMan

Over the last six months, I wrote my master thesis about porting an enterprise OSGi application to a PaaS. Last Monday, the 21th Juli 2014, I presented the main results of my thesis to my professor (best greetings to you, Mr. Goik!) and to my colleges (thanks to all of you!) at Informatica in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf, Germany (where I had written my thesis based on one of their product information management applications, called Informatica PIM).

I spend the last weeks (or months?) at my desk writing my Master thesis about OSGi, PaaS and Docker. After my Bachelor thesis two years ago, this was my second big “literary work”. And as any computer scientist, I love tools! So here is my toolbox I used to write my thesis.

XML vs. JSON

Who is using OSGi? If you take a look http://www.osgi.org/About/Members you will see more than a hundred members of the the OSGi Alliance and a lot of big players just like IBM or Oracle. But lets do a little investigation with Google Trends on our own.

The Docker Registry

The cloud is build on Linux - that is my own humbling opinion. But is it really? To answer this question for myself, I took a look at a bunch of cloud vendors to see what they got under the hood. Here is what I found.

How do you know that you are living in the Matrix? Well, I do not know, but at least I know how to tell you if you are inside a Docker container or not.