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Scala and OSGi using NetBeans

For some reason, I can’t keep OSGi in my head. Everything I read about it slips away in a few weeks, and I have re-read the guides and tutorials.

Here’s a memo of setting up OSGi bundle written in Scala using NetBeans, following Neil Barlett’s OSGi in Practice, except the book uses Eclipse.

Installing Scala on Mac

Skip this section if you use non-Mac. Install MacPorts. Run the following from Terminal:

Scala and Evaluation Strategy

Once you use any technology to a significant extent, you understand its strength and shortcomings. I’ve probably written tens of thousands of lines of code in Delphi or C++, Java and C# too to some extent. I’ve depended on those languages, but gripe about them too. The new language obviously has the advantage of just being new. Since I haven’t written anything significant in Scala besides Tetris, I haven’t hit the shortcomings yet.