Mobile Market

An open middleware and application framework

Despite the vast and growing number of existing mobile application platforms, mobile developers still face serious limitations when it comes to developing sophisticated, modular-based applications that run across various operating systems. While most platforms support building proprietary, monolithic, UI-centric applications, few provide what is considered a key building block in other software industries: middleware.

OSGi complements mobile operating systems by adding a standardized, portable, manageable and secure cross-platform runtime for software components. Components may contain APIs, services, middleware or business logic modules, etc. Thus, OSGi enables the community to innovate on a platform level and not just on an application level. This is of particular interest to developers of sophisticated enterprise mobility solutions, service providers and operators pushing local APIs onto mobile devices. Developers now rely upon this fully functional robust environment in the desktop and server spaces. This new architecture will help ensure that compelling applications and services will be available in the mobile environment, and that mobile services can evolve at Web 2.0 speed to meet the needs of the rapidly changing environment at the network edge.

In summary, Mobile OSGi enables the following use cases:

Programming in a modern, robust, secure, modular, component-based service architecture
Managing software components remotely
Opening innovation on a platform level
Building a new mobile ecosystem for mobile services and APIs
Building portable, cross-platform mobile software

The OSGi mobile specification is the underlying technology in JSR 232, the mobile Java service platform, which was submitted to the JCP by OSGi members Nokia Corporation and Motorola. Mobile OSGi framework implementations are available for all major mobile operating systems including Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Brew and Linux.

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