The OSGi Alliance named OSGi cloud activities a strategic initiative for 2015. OSGi cloud activities are based on industry needs and perspectives collected by the OSGi Alliance from members and OSGi cloud workshop attendees. The focus now is on extending the OSGi framework to address cloud computing use cases.

The latest version of the working document (RFP 133) be found in OSGi Bugzilla (bug 114). OSGi specification work on the cloud will be included in the Alliance’s OSGi Internet of Things activities.

For information on Alliance cloud activities, email cloud-workshop@mail.osgi.org. To help shape OSGi cloud activities and related specifications, join the Alliance.

Presentations

OSGi activities and roles in the cloud are showcased in a number of presentations in recent years:

• Adrian Cole (JClouds): JClouds Abstractions
• David Lutterkort (Red Hat): Apache DeltaCloud
• Doug Tidwell (IBM): Simple Cloud
• Doug Davis (IBM): DMTF Cloud Management Workgroup Status
• Mark Carlson (Oracle): SNIA: Interoperable cloud with CDMI

Presentations held during the 2nd OSGi Cloud Workshop at EclipseCon/OSGi DevCon 2012

• David Bosschaert (Red Hat): Thoughts about OSGi and Discovery in the Cloud
• Richard Nicholson (Paremus): Cloud & OSGi – Beyond the VM
• JC Martin (eBay): Cloud and OSGi integration at eBay
• Adrian Cole (jclouds/Cloudsoft): Embedding Cloud in your code with JClouds
• Gunnar Wagenknecht (Ageto): Eclipse Gyrex, OSGi based PaaS-like programming stack