OSGi Alliance News

News / 20080821

2008-08-21T18:30:59Z

OSGi Alliance makes Early Draft of Version 4.2 Available. An Early Draft of changes coming for Version 4.2 of the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 specifications is now available for download and comment. Download...

OSGi Alliance is now an Eclipse Associate Member. The OSGi Alliance has recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member. Read more...

News / 20080819

2008-08-19T16:50:33Z

JAX votes about the Importance of OSGi. This is a vote (in German) about how people see OSGi. Over 85% of the participants think are considering it or using it. Read more...

News / 20080818

2008-08-18T05:44:40Z

OSGi on the Beagleboard The Beagleboard is an impressive and very low cost embedded computer board that now also runs OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080813

2008-08-13T07:28:43Z

The OSGi Home Page is changed. We added some pages that list the benefits, that give a 10.000 foot overview of the architecture, and try to help you get started. Let us know what you think!

OSGi, Log4J and JDBC. In interesting article that describes how Log4J was used to store log records in a database on an OSGi based system. Read more...

Atlassian is moving to an OSGi based plugin system Atlassian, the company that produces developer tools like the Bamboo build system and the JIRA bug reporting system, is very popular in open source. They are now moving to an OSGi based plugin system. Read more...

News / 20080804

2008-08-04T14:27:38Z

Richard S Hall (Apache Felix) Joins Sun. Richard Hall has recently joined Sun and will work with the Glassfish team. Read more...

News / 20080723

2008-07-24T00:12:36Z

The Whiteboard Pattern for OSGi. In the first article in this series, we saw how to build OSGi bundles, register services, build simple dependencies on other bundles, and look up services from other OSGi bundles. However, it's not the most efficient way to manage services in a lot of cases. We're going to show a pattern that a lot of OSGi programmers say is the way to go. Read more...

SOA in a JVM: OSGi Service Platform - A Dynamic Component System for Java There are many forces that influence technological evolution. After a decade of building enterprise applications on the web, today’s enterprise application platform is slowly evolving to the next generation application platform. What exactly are the components of this next superplatform? Read more...

News / 20080722

2008-07-22T17:34:22Z

OSGi running on Amazon EC2. Server side OSGi applications now can also be easily deployed on computing clouds implemented by Amazon (EC2). Read more...

News / 20080711

2008-07-11T21:19:28Z

OSGi and The Rise of The Stackless Stack: Just in Time OSGi Stackless Component Model meets AJAX, Android, Flex Read more...

Universal Middleware: What's Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care Read more...

Top Five Java Technologies to Learn in 2008 Carlos Perez has posted the list of the top five Java-based technologies to learn in 2008 Read more...

Infiniflow Brings OSGi to Spring Apps Paremus today announced support for OSGi-based Spring Dynamic Modules on the Infiniflow Service Fabric Read more...

Eclipse Swordfish SOA runtime mixes SCA, JBI and OSGi Read more...

News / 20080708

2008-07-08T07:54:04Z

OSGi management tool mToolkit free edition released. mToolkit extends the Eclipse IDE with the necessary tools for easier adoption of the OSGi technology. Read more...

Open XChange Server now also based on Java and OSGi. The OSGi framework support enables the addition and removal of third-party applications, such as spam and virus protection with zero downtime of Open-Xchange. Read more...

Oracle details its BEA strategy. BEA's microServices Architecture plays an important role in the future as well. Read more...

News / 20080704

2008-07-04T06:51:06Z

The Time Line of Java. OSGi is actually present in this timeline of Java! Read more...

News / 20080701

2008-07-01T05:53:08Z

Encountering OSGi. A lengthy article that collects much information and pointers to information about OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080626

2008-06-26T06:45:20Z

Pros and Cons of Plugin Systems An interesting analysis of the (dis)advantages of plugin systems where OSGi is used as a yard stick. Read more...

News / 20080618

2008-06-18T23:38:33Z

SD Times 100 and OSGi. SD Times 100 recognizes OSGi technology as one of the best and brightest component technologies for 2008. Read more...

News / 20080616

2008-06-16T06:11:35Z

OSGi at LinkedIn. LinkedIn is becoming a heavy user of OSGi and uses the experience they are getting to inform others. Read more...

News / 20080614

2008-06-14T23:55:13Z

Distributed OSGi Effort Progresses. The effort to deliver a distributed OSGi platform gains momentum. Read more...

News / 20080613

2008-06-14T02:24:05Z

2008 OSGi Community Event presentations are available online. You can access them from the session title links on the 2008 OSGi Community Event Program page.

News / 20080606

2008-06-11T13:04:36Z

Hello OSGi. JavaWorld has a pretty comprehensive introductory article about OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080604

2008-06-04T06:55:28Z

OSGi is like Lego. Article on Infor Tech Talk Read more...

News / 20080602

2008-07-23T22:41:35Z

SD Times 100: 2008 Any developer worth his or her salt knows that it's all been done before. And it's probably already been done better and faster. That's why they use components. After all, building everything from scratch is so 1984. Read more...

News / 20080523

2008-05-23T14:27:19Z

Did you register yet! Only a few more weeks to the event! Read more ...

Andi Egloff responds to JBoss' Sacha Labourey. Andi also asks the question if OSGi is being hyped by vendors. He concludes: Yes. And rightly so! The prospect of OSGi looks sunnier and sunnier. Read more...

Is OSGi becoming a hype? A blog from JBoss' Sacha Labourey complains about vendors hyping OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080513

2008-05-13T16:48:39Z

The JVM is great but ... From an individual that looks like he is believing in OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080502

2008-05-02T06:25:26Z

SCA and OSGi Synergy grows. SCA is and OSGi seem to having the same underlying philosophy but attack the problem from different ends of the spectrum. Read more...

News / 20080430

2008-04-30T15:59:42Z

SpringSource Launches New Application Server Based Upon OSGi Technology. On the benefits of the new application server, SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson emphasized modularity: both for the server itself but also for the packaging and deployment model offered to developers. Read more...

News / 20080412

2008-04-12T20:19:20Z

GlassFish V3 runs on OSGi! "[...]are we switching to OSGi as our underlying module subsystem [for GlassFish]? Today I can say yes, we will." Read more...

News / 20080411

2008-04-11T13:47:53Z

Cisco launches Application eXtension Platform - ProSyst providing the OSGi Runtime and Remote Management for this open Linux based platform to develop and host custom and third party applications directly on the Cisco ISR. Read more ... or have a look at the Product Literature

News / 20080404

2008-04-04T16:48:48Z

BJ Hargrave and Peter Kriens will give a presentation at JavaOne (San Francisco May 6-9) Mark your agenda's if you want to learn "How to Convert (Large) Applications to OSGi", Thursday May 08 13:30 - 14:30 session TS-5122. There are quite a few OSGi related talks. Read more ...

News / 20080403

2008-04-04T05:37:57Z

He disliked Eclipse ... Thought that OSGi sucked ... But then he was at JavaPolis 2007! A podcast from a convert to OSGi testifies about his conversion. Hear more ... or Read more ...

News / 20080401

2008-04-01T08:32:42Z

Are Eskimos Heavy into OSGi? Some chatter on Twitter seems to indicate this, but the language looks encoded. Read more...

OSGi and Enterprise. DZone has an interesting article discussing why OSGi is so attractive for enterprise developments. Read more ...

News / 20080328

2008-03-28T06:39:58Z

InfoQ rounds up EclipseCon/DevCon A summary of all the things that happened during the fantastic conference. Read more...

News / 20080326

2008-03-26T16:24:49Z

OSGi & Android Gábor Pécsy outlines what is necessary to run OSGi on the Android emulators. Read more...

News / 20080325

2008-03-25T08:15:40Z

Sprint Application Development Program Webcast Event. Sprint will talk about their new Titan platform. Read more...

News / 20080321

2008-03-24T02:40:54Z

2008 OSGi Community Event Call for Speakers. The Call for Speakers has been put out for the 2008 OSGi Community Event. Read more...

News / 20080319

2008-03-19T22:57:59Z

OSGi successes cited for Android. Technologist stress that still more needs to be done to get Eclipse's Equinox, Apache Felix, and Concierge OSGi implementations accommodated on Android. Read more...

News / 20080317

2008-03-17T18:57:46Z

Today March 17 OSGi DevCon (also known as EclipseCon) is beginning! If you are not here in Santa Clara this week, then you miss out on a lot of good OSGi talks and tutorials. We will keep you posted with a daily blog on www.osgi.org/blog. See you there.

News / 20080309

2008-03-10T02:58:04Z

Creating a Domain Specific Language for OSGi. Roman Roelofsen shares his thoughts on how to create a DSL for OSGi with Scala. Read more...

News / 20080306

2008-03-06T17:37:11Z

JBoss is taking OSGi very serious. In this interview with Ales Justin JBoss shows how serious OSGi has become for them. Read more ...

News / 20080305

2008-03-05T08:56:24Z

Java World recognizes OSGi with an introductory OSGi Tutorial. The well known Hello World for different frameworks. Read more ...

News / 20080229

2008-02-29T14:47:14Z

Is Eclipse falling in love with services? It seems that some Eclipse committers are discovering services, one even would like to be able to marry them ... Read more...

News / 20080225

2008-02-25T10:03:22Z

Sprint Nextel's OSGi based Mobile Java Service Platform now available! Exciting news for all mobile Java enthusiasts and developers: Sprint releases its next generation mobile Java platform called Titan, incl. tools and demos. Read more...

News / 20080220

2008-02-20T09:27:37Z

Creating OSGi bundles. Costin Leau (SpringSource) gives a good overview of creating OSGi bundles using the bnd tool. Read more ...