Articles Tagged ‘blueprint’

Creating a Blueprint / Content-Creator Plugin for Confluence

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Blueprint is a new API in Confluence 5 that allows developers to create new content elements and to hook into the Confluence “create” dialogue – not to be confused with OSGi blueprints, the CSS blueprint framework or Tinkerpop Blueprints here.

Content may be added using simple XHTML templates, dynamic templates enriched with data from context providers or even customized JavaScript dialogues.

Another feature is, that pages of a specific blueprint type may be aggregated in a collector view that displays all pages created with the specific blueprint

In the following short example we’re going to create a simple blueprint adding some dynamic data to the blueprint template using a context provider.

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Wiring made easy using OSGi Blueprint and Apache Karaf

Monday, April 16th, 2012

The OSGi Blueprint Container specification allows us to use dependency injection in our OSGi environment, declarative import and export of OSGi services, registering lifecycle listeners and wiring dependencies into our services with a few lines of XML code.
In the following tutorial we’re first building an OSGi bundle classical style and afterwards take a trip into the advantages of the Blueprint specification.

Our OSGi container of choice here will be Apache Karaf a lightweight container with a lot of nice features and – of course – blueprint enabled…

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