OSGi Alliance News

News / 20081203

2008-12-03T12:42:50Z

Project Jigsaw. Sun decides the experiment with modularizing the VM in OpenJDK, however, they promise to work with the OSGi Alliance to make it all fit well together on the higher layers. Read more...

News / 20081202

2008-12-02T16:43:08Z

OSGi 4.2 Early Draft 2 Now Available. Early Draft 2 of changes coming for Version 4.2 of the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 specifications is now available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License for download and comment. Download...

News / 20081127

2008-11-27T16:17:51Z

Dynamic Swing OSGi Demo. The interesting article from Kai Tödter is followed by an even more interesting discussion about OSGi after someone criticizes OSGi for not being the silver bullet. Read more...

News / 20081125

2008-11-25T17:18:01Z

Websphere 7 & OSGi. It seems IBM will show more of OSGi to its developers in the upcoming release of Websphere 7. Read more...

News / 20081112

2008-11-12T15:08:07Z

OSGi boost for middleware innovation? OSGi could mean a big boost for middleware innovation. Read more...

News / 20081106

2008-11-06T15:18:09Z

Sun offers OSGi app server. Sun is offering its open-source GlassFish Enterprise Server version 3 Prelude, a Web application server based on a modular OSGi architecture. Read more...

ModuleFusion 1.0.2 Released: Enterprise OSGi Distribution. Read how multiple enterprise Java application frameworks can be packaged together as OSGi bundles. Developers can thus use familiar technologies when building server applications without employing a full J2EE container. Read more...

News / 20081104

2008-11-04T17:48:50Z

OSGi: What modularity can do for you. Inspired by a recent presentation by a friend of mine, Craig Walls, and the announcement by Ales Justin to support OSGi in JBoss 5, I decided to see what all the fuss is about. Read more...

News / 20081030

2008-10-30T14:42:08Z

Version Management Hell and OSGi. Neil Bartlett comments on LinkedIn's Yan Pujante presentation. Read more...

News / 20081029

2008-10-29T07:28:15Z

SpringSource makes OSGi more accessible. An interesting analysis from OVUM that asses the importance of repositories. Read more...

News / 20081021

2008-10-21T12:14:48Z

Building LinkedIn's Next Generation Architecture with OSGi. A report from attending the Colorado Software Summit in Keystone, Colorado. Read more...

Documenting Command Providers. Interesting article how to easily document Eclipse Command providers Read more ...

News / 20081017

2008-11-04T17:57:35Z

SpringSource creates repository of OSGi-ready Java libraries. SpringSource has created a repository with more than 400 enterprise open-source Java libraries in an OSGi-ready format. Read more...

News / 20081016

2008-11-04T18:00:53Z

Experimenting with OSGi on Server Side. And once I started looking into it, I was quite surprised to find the ease with which it provided the solutions to some of the problems that we face in the web application development. Read more...

News / 20081009

2008-11-04T17:51:34Z

SpringSource Releases New App Server. SpringSource, the chief commercial sponsor of the open-source Spring Framework project, recently released an OSGi-based Java server. Read more...

News / 20081004

2008-11-04T17:56:20Z

SpringSource Unveils Its OSGi-Supported App Server. The SpringSource dm Server aims to simplify the deployment environment the way it has done in the development environment. Read more...

News / 20081003

2008-11-04T17:54:15Z

SpringSource launches Java app server. The company behind the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, has begun offering this week an OSGi-based application server that runs enterprise Java and Spring applications. Read more...

News / 20081002

2008-11-04T17:58:51Z

SpringSource dm Server incorporates OSGi bundles. SpringSource, the company behind Spring, is throwing its support behind OSGi; on Tuesday, it announced the release of its first Java server, the SpringSource dm Server, based on Apache Tomcat, OSGi and the Spring framework. Read more...

News / 20081001

2008-10-01T14:11:06Z

Top Vendors Leading the OSGi Charge An interesting article rehashing the OSGi news release of September 16 and looking at the implications. Especially the questions you should ask your vendor are interesting. Read more...

News / 20080925

2008-09-25T18:26:15Z

How to use Configuration Admin. An interesting article about Configuration Admin usage. Read more...

News / 20080916

2008-09-16T17:22:15Z

World-leading Enterprise Application Server Providers Propel OSGi Technology to an Industry-wide Standard IBM, Oracle, Paremus, ProSyst, Red Hat, SAP, SpringSource and Sun Microsystems Use OSGi technology in current and next-generation Java technology-based servers. Read more...

News / 20080902

2008-09-02T14:15:43Z

Java 7: Sun's good grooming. A higher-level module standard—JSR 291, which is not part of Java 7 but which is gaining wide acceptance—is OSGi. Read more...

News / 20080828

2008-08-28T11:15:00Z

Some thought on the OSGi R4.2 early draft. An succinct overview of the proposed changes for R4.2. Read more...

OSGi: What modularity can do for you (part 1). An interesting introduction in the advantages of OSGi modularity. Read more ...

News / 20080822

2008-08-22T12:59:11Z

OSGi running on an iPhone. Chris Aniszczyk runs OSGi on an iPhone. Read more...

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...