OSGi's JavaOne Rock Stars BJ Hargrave, OSGi CTO and Fellow, and Peter Kriens, OSGi Technical Director, Evangelist and Fellow, have been named JavaOne Rock Stars for their top-rated "Why OSGi?" presentation at JavaOne 2011. The JavaOne Rock Star Program started in 2005 to recognize speakers for their outstanding session content and speaking ability. Click here for all of the 2011 JavaOne Rock Stars and further information.

CME Group is using Virgo and OSGi "(...) What Virgo and OSGi provides for us is complete modularity and plug-and-play capability. This enables us to work more intelligently with other teams who need to build bundles independently of us where the strong isolation of services and APIs allows for a clear separation of control. (...)" Read more...

OSGi Alliance Restructures Membership, Promotes Broader Technical Participation. A new membership structure announced today by the OSGi™ Alliance prompts more organizations to participate in the technical development and evolution of OSGi technology. Tiered pricing for leadership privileges and more options for technical involvement make it easier for organizations to influence the OSGi Service Platform, the dynamic module system for Java™, and leverage new royalty-­free intellectual property rights to OSGi specifications in their products and services. Read more...

Apache Moves Geronimo to OSGi Base. The Apache Software Foundation has reconfigured its Geronimo application server to a set of standards established by the OSGi Alliance. Read more...

German User Forum Event The community event of the User Forum Germany will take place in Cologne on November 16th. The OSGi Alliance president, Dr. Richard Nicholson, will give the key note. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Early Draft 2011.09 available for download. The OSGi Alliance now has the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Early Draft 2011.09 specification ready for download. The early draft specification is made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License.

OSGi Alliance makes a draft of the Residential 4.3 specification available for download. The OSGi Residential Expert Group now has a draft of the Residential 4.3 specification ready for download and comment. The draft specification is made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License.

JBossOSGi-1.0.0 Final Released. This is the first OSGi Core 4.2 Framework compliant release for JBoss. Read more...

OSGi and the Enterprise Business Whitepaper This new whitepaper shows that application modularity is the keystone required to successfully address challenges faced by the modern enterprise. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Early Draft 2011.05 available for download. The OSGi Alliance now has the OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Early Draft 2011.05 specification ready for download. The early draft specification is made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License.

Oracle Moves JDeveloper IDE to OSGi Backbone. The IDE has been re-architected to sit on top of an OSGi backbone. This makes the creation of OSGi based extensions for Oracle JDeveloper much easier, and also significantly reduces start-up times. Read more and more...

OSGi Certification Mark available for certified frameworks. The OSGi Alliance grants OSGi members whose service platform passes the OSGi Compliance and Certification program the right to use the OSGi certification mark for marketing purposes on the member’s product web site and in collateral. Read more...

Java Use Increases Among Developers Worldwide: Survey. OSGi seems not only for the most widely used language but also for the fastest growing language. Read more...

ProSyst to integrate Android@Home with HGI and OSGi based Service Execution Platform Service Providers are enabled to seamlessly integrate solutions based on already existing protocols such as ZigBee, KNX, Z-Wave etc. with Android@Home across a wide range of major hardware/software platforms. Read more...

Java Tech Journal Special on OSGi. The new (and very interesting to read) Java Tech Journal features a special on OSGi Technology that is a must read for everybody interested in OSGi. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes the Core 4.3 specification available for download. The OSGi Alliance has completed and approved the Core 4.3 specification and it is now available for download along with the API jar and javadoc. The specification is made available under the OSGi Specification License, Version 1.0.

Manning have today published OSGi in Action. Written by Richard S. Hall, Karl Pauls, Stuart McCulloch and David Savage, long-term OSGi users and committers on the Apache Felix runtime, the depth of knowledge in the book comes across with subtleties and specific gotchas documented. Get 35% off electronic versions with code osgi35. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes the proposed final draft of the Core 4.3 specification available for download. The OSGi Core Platform Expert Group now has a proposed final draft of the Core 4.3 specification ready for download. The draft specification is made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License.

Nuxeo donates OSGi based content repository system to Eclipse. The Nuxeo Core is now known (within the Eclipse Foundation) as the Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository. The newly formed project lives under the umbrella Eclipse Runtime project. Read more...

OSGi Alliance makes 4.3 early draft 3 specification available for download and comment. The OSGi Expert Groups now have an early draft 3 specification for Core, Compendium, Enterprise and Residential 4.3 available. The draft specifications are made available under the OSGi Distribution and Feedback License for download and comment.

TranSwitch uses Knopflerfish to showcase high performance OSGi based Home Gateway designs at CES. The design has achieved best-in-class performance, while also satisfying the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) software modularity test criteria. Read more...

Hitachi SuperJTM Applications Environment Provides Unified Platform for the Development, Deployment and Management of Subscriber Applications The solution is compatible with the OSGiTM Service Platform open standard, the dynamic module system for JavaTM Read more...

Wind River will show its OSGi based Residential Gateway at the 2011 International CES, January 6–9, in Las Vegas With its partners Mindspeed, Digion, ProSyst, Skelmir, and Work Systems, Wind River will show its integrated connected device technologies specifically designed for gateway applications, a bundled offering of Wind River Linux with validated middleware components for TR069, DLNA, OSGi, VoIP, and ZigBee Read more...