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The St. Louis Java Users Group meets on the second Thursday of the month. Today's presenter is O'Reilly author Brian Coyner, and the topic is Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi).

Most people recognize OSGi as the foundation for Eclipse 3's plug-in architecture. Brian takes the concept and applies it to Swing based GUI product development. What results is a highly modular, service oriented, hot patchable GUI framework—a JBoss-like container for Swing components.

Brian is his usual lively self. There are lots of back and forth with the audience.

The presentation slides can be found here.

The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium will come back to St. Louis on March 03-05, 2006. We gave out a free pass to the show at the JUG meeting today.

This is an excellent show. I attended twice. I highly recommend it. Send the whole project team. Early registration is still open (till Feb 12.)

I overheard a comment today that reminded me of an old blog entry I wrote. So I searched for it. It's hard to believe but I wrote it in 2003. Here it is.