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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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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