OSGi Alliance News

News / 20100824

2010-08-24T11:12:24Z

OSGi Bundle Quality or Bundle Information Repository An interesting blog discussing a portal that would qualify bundles. Read more...

News / 20100817

2010-08-17T13:23:01Z

Neil Bartlett and Peter Kriens will give a Masterclass. At Oct 12-15 Neil Bartlett and Peter Kriens will give a master class in Girona, Spain. Read more ...

News / 20100621

2010-06-21T08:25:01Z

Objective-C Inventor Brad Cox likes OSGi. Brad Cox, the inventor of Objective-C (the language that underpins the iPhone, iPad, and MacOS) and Superdistribution discusses this language from the eighties and regrets not have made something like OSGi at the time. Read more...

Netbeans 6.9 release with focus on OSGi. Oracle recently released Netbeans 6.9 that has extensive OSGi support. There are even rumors OSGi bundls will be able to run inside Netbeans. Read more...

News / 20100616

2010-06-16T08:21:55Z

Eclipse DemoCamps Helios 2010. In the coming weeks there are lots of DemoCamps showing new Eclipse technology, for example there is a London DemoCamp the 17th of June where Neil Bartlett will show its bndtools. Next week there are DemoCamps in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, etc. DemoCamps are a good way to learn OSGi technology. Read more...

News / 20100615

2010-06-15T07:15:53Z

OSGi Enterprise Specification You can now order the OSGi Enterprise Specification as a book, much easier to read! Read more...

News / 20100601

2010-06-01T15:02:37Z

Cavium Networks and ProSyst Partner to Provide Reference Solutions for Service Provider Deployed Digital Home Gateways. Read more...

News / 20100527

2010-05-27T06:47:39Z

Free Bundle Manager Workshop in London (June 1) Learn to manage your bundles from the experts that developed Apache Ace. Karl Pauls and Marcel Offermans will teach you how to not get lost in deployment problems. Read more...

News / 20100526

2010-05-26T12:29:39Z

IBM releases a new feature pack for it's WebSphere Application Server providing enterprise developers access to OSGi capabilities. The IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 leverages the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Enterprise Specification Version 4.2 set of specifications to provide integration between OSGi capabilities and Java EE. Read more...

News / 20100520

2010-05-20T15:05:34Z

OSGi für Praktiker A new German OSGi book from Bernd Weber, Patrick Baumgartner, Oliver Braun. Read more...

News / 20100518

2010-05-18T16:23:13Z

Semantic Versioning Whitepaper published by the OSGi Alliance. This whitepaper outlines the OSGi Alliance's recommendations for versioning. Read the whitepaper.

News / 20100511

2010-05-11T07:05:39Z

Announcing Bndtools: Simple, Powerful OSGi Tools for Eclipse Neil Bartlett has developed an Eclipse plugin that provides an alternative development model. Read more...

News / 20100506

2010-05-06T13:03:50Z

OSGi Alliance makes two draft specifications available for download and comment. The OSGi Core Platform Expert Group now has an early draft specification for Core 4.3 available and the OSGi Residential Expert Group now has an updated early draft specification available. Both draft specifications are made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License for download and comment.

News / 20100504

2010-05-04T15:56:26Z

Ecosystems, Modularity, & OSGi. Kirk Knoernschild describes his vision for a bundle market, very interesting read if you're interested in the future of OSGi. Read more...

News / 20100426

2010-04-26T07:15:59Z

Building OSGi based applications. A report about the very successful OSGi workshop organized by the German OSGi Users Group. Read more...

News / 20100323

2010-03-23T14:51:26Z

OSGi Alliance Publishes Enterprise Specification. Enterprise-tailored specification addresses use cases in enterprise scenarios. The specification is available for immediate download. Read more...

News / 20100208

2010-02-08T11:09:07Z

OSGi Cloud Computing Workshop. The Eclipse Foundation and the OSGi Alliance are organizing a Cloud Workshop at Thursday March 25 during the OSGi DevCon/EclipseCon in Santa Clara. We are looking for cloud computing experts to learn what OSGi could mean in the cloud. Read more...

News / 20100202

2010-02-02T14:47:42Z

OSGi DevCon/EclipseCon Mar 22-25 Santa Clara. The OSGi DevCon program is available and you ahve only untl the 14th of February to register with the early registration discount! Read more...

News / 20100129

2010-01-29T16:05:29Z

Transparent Grid. Bundle-Bee, transparent, grid-distributed OSGi computing . Interesting approach! Read more...

News / 20100120

2010-01-20T09:55:29Z

OSGi made Easy. Interview with Robert Dunne (Paremus) about Nimble, an intriguing approach to bundle management. Read more...

News / 20100119

2010-01-19T10:33:23Z

OSGi Users'-Forum Germany is organizing a workshop on how to build OSGi based applications on April 15 in Darmstadt. You are kindly invited to submit a proposal for a presentation Read more...

News / 20100107

2010-01-07T09:10:16Z

ProSysts' Partner CTC and Toko Electric co-develop Energy Management System. Read more...

News / 20091215

2009-12-15T18:51:21Z

Books, books, books. There are many books about OSGi nowadays, look at our book page to see how many! Read more...

News / 20091214

2009-12-18T14:52:48Z

OSGi DevCon London Day. Register for this London based event! Read more...

News / 20091201

2010-01-07T18:34:52Z

OSGi DevCon 2010 with EclipseCon 2010. OSGi Alliance is pleased to announce that OSGi DevCon 2010 will be held on 22-25 March, 2010 in co-operation with EclipseCon at the Santa Clara Hyatt. Read more...

News / 20091130

2009-11-30T23:14:55Z

OSGi Enterprise Specification Early Draft 4 Now Available. The OSGi Enterprise Expert Group now has a new early draft specification available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License for download and comment.

News / 20091117

2009-11-17T19:46:30Z

Building OSGi applications with the Blueprint Container specification. In this article, learn how the Blueprint Container provides a simple programming model for creating dynamic applications in the OSGi environment without adding complexity to the Java™ code. Numerous examples help get you started with the Blueprint XML file and the component XML definitions. Read more...

News / 20091114

2009-11-14T14:16:38Z

Is OSGi Adoption Growing? An Interview with Kirk Knoernschild. Read more...

News / 20091113

2009-11-14T18:59:36Z

Richard S. Hall named OSGi Fellow. The OSGi Alliance has named Richard S. Hall of Sun Microsystems as an OSGi Fellow in recognition of Richard's long history of sustained contribution to the development and advancement of OSGi technology.

News / 20091110

2009-11-10T23:18:55Z

OSGi Residential Specification Early Draft 2 Now Available. The OSGi Residential Expert Group now has an early draft specification available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License for download and comment.

News / 20091105

2009-11-05T09:08:14Z

Home ICT Trial in Japan. On Nov. 2nd, NTT and five Japanese companies (Panasonic, Fuji XEROX, Sharp, NEC, and Buffalo) issued a press release announcing to start the "Home-ICT" trial based on OSGi and NGN (Next Generation Network). The trial aim to create new services (incl. energy management and health care) by connecting various devices/appliances in the homes and offices. Read more... (Japanese)

News / 20091103

2009-11-03T11:43:02Z

OSGi DevCon London Call for Papers now open Closes on 27th Nov, 2009 so don’t delay submit a proposal now!

News / 20091016

2009-10-16T13:27:06Z

OSGi Users'-Forum Germany meets on Oct. 27 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The event is co-located with the Eclipse Summit Europe. Read more...

News / 20091015

2009-10-15T18:38:55Z

JAX London – Bringing a unique conference experience to the British capital. Long-Standing Conference on Java, Architecture, Agile and OSGi Debuts with Proven Concepts & Experts - Featuring OSGi DevCon London. Read more...

News / 20091013

2009-10-13T14:45:44Z

OSGi DevCon London The OSGi Alliance is pleased to announce that OSGi DevCon London 2010 will be held on 23rd February, 2010 in co-operation with JAX London. Read more...

News / 20091008

2009-10-08T07:55:35Z

Many new OSGi books coming on the market! The increased adoption of OSGi causes more and more books to be published about OSGi. Some publishers provide special OSGi discounts! Read more...

News / 20091002

2009-10-02T08:33:41Z

OSGi Runtime Days The Eclipse Foundation organizes OSGi Runtime days in Austin and Toronto that will teach you how to use the OSGi Equinox framework in many environments. Read more...

News / 20090924

2009-09-24T17:53:43Z

OSGi Alliance Approves OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Core and Compendium Version 4.2 For Public Release. Newest version includes Blueprint Container specification. Read more...

News / 20090916

2009-09-17T15:23:14Z

OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Version 4.2 Specifications Available. The OSGi Alliance is happy to announce that after many months of hard work, the Core Specification Version 4.2 and Service Compendium Version 4.2 specifications have been approved by the OSGi Alliance members. The specification documents, javadoc, companion code jars and errata are now available for download.

News / 20090915

2009-09-17T15:13:13Z

OSGi Alliance and HGI Collaborate to Boost Broadband provider Flexibility and Service Offerings. The OSGi Alliance and the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) announced today a partnership agreement that will enable broadband service providers to offer more flexible applications to residential customers. Read more.

News / 20090902

2009-09-02T05:58:04Z

A Glassfish Engineer. A interview with Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo about Glassfish 3, which is committed to OSGi and JEE portability. Read more...