Andy Piper

ANDY PIPER is a software architect with Oracle Corporation working on Oracle’s event-driven suite of products, a Java software stack based on OSGi, Spring, and Spring DM technologies. Prior to working for Oracle, Andy was open source architect at BEA systems looking at open source technologies such as Spring and core architect for Web-Logic Server. Andy was responsible for many of WebLogic’s enterprise-class features, such as clustering, RMI, IIOP, and HA technologies. Andy is a committer on the Spring DM project and holds a PhD in distributed computing from Cambridge University, England.

books by Andy Piper

Spring Dynamic Modules in Action

  • September 2010
  • ISBN 9781935182306
  • 548 pages
  • printed in black & white

Spring Dynamic Modules in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that presents OSGi concepts and maps them to the familiar ideas of the Spring framework. In it, you'll learn to effectively use Spring DM. You will master powerful techniques like embedding a Spring container inside an OSGi bundle, and see how Spring's dependency injection compliments OSGi. Along the way, you'll learn to handle data access and web-based components, and explore topics like unit testing and configuration in OSGi.