OSGi Alliance News

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 / 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 ...

News / 20080219

2008-03-25T15:07:44Z

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IBM, BEA and JBoss adopting OSGi. OSGi is already seeing adoption in the Java EE space as vendors look for ways to make their application server products more modular and flexible. Read more...

News / 20080215

2008-02-15T12:56:19Z

"You can almost get Product Managers on board with the “SOA in a JVM” story. But Sales and Marketing won’t bother to stop typing on their Blackberries once you start talking about OSGi." Sad but true. This article is a wonderful experience story how a large convoluted legacy system was reworked and made a world of difference in the development environment. Read more ...

Spring-DM (formerly known as Spring-OSGi) will have an introductory webinar Costin Leau will present Spring Dynamic Modules which leverages the OSGi platform. Read more...

OSGi in Network Analysis? Yes! Keybridge, an integration company for the cable/broadcaster industry is looking for a proposal to connect OSGi to low level network analysis. Read more ...

News / 20080213

2008-02-13T15:20:16Z

A Comparison of OSGi and Android A very interesting article regarding the issues around OSGi and Google Android. Written by Gabor Pecsy, one of the key persons in the development of OSGi Mobile/JSR 232 specification. Read more ...

News / 20080212

2008-02-12T20:11:23Z

JBoss is working on OSGi too ... We know, but it is interesting to see that now all major JEE servers are running on OSGi, or will soon. Read more ...

News / 20080208

2008-02-08T14:51:29Z

OSGi R4 Specifications available in book form. Order here ...

Did you register for EclipseCon 2008? Register ...

OSGi Zone? DZone is looking on creating an OSGi zone. Not sure if his desires if already been fullfilled though. Read more ...

Not everybody is cheering about OSGi? A blog on O'Reilly dislikes OSGi because it has hot pluggability. Interesting, an optional feature that upsets people. Neil Bartlett and Peter Kriens try to point out the many advantages of OSGi to the author. Read more ...

News / 20080204

2008-02-08T14:50:36Z

What's happening? So many articles cheering about OSGi ... Dave Chappel and Khanderao Kand from Oracle write an introduction to OSGi and declare it has a great future. Read more ...

News / 20080131

2008-01-31T19:07:26Z

URGENT! JSR 277 must interoperate with JSR 291 (=OSGi R4.1). A bug has been registered at Sun Developer's network to track the interoperability between the module JSRs. Support OSGi by voting for this bug. Vote for the bug ...

News / 20080130

2008-01-30T22:05:22Z

OSGi is a top technology to learn in 2008. A TheServerSide news article lists OSGi as one of the top 5 technologies to learn in 2008. Read more ...

News / 20080126

2008-01-30T22:01:08Z

Spring Dynamic Modules (formerly called Spring-OSGi) 1.0 released. After a long incubation period SpringSource finally delivered the first version of what is likely to become a key component of enterprise computing. Read more ...

News / 20080124

2008-01-24T22:39:26Z

OSGi from an Enterprise Perspective. An in depth look at OSGi from an enterprise developer. It thoroughly introduces the basics of the OSGi framework. Read more ...