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The OSGi Alliance held the second OSGi DevCon in North America in conjuction with EclipseCon at the Santa Clara Convention Center from March 17 to 20. |
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Long Talks:
We had a very strong program this year. First the long talks, from experience reports, Android, to distribution, to hardware like lego. All talks show how the power of OSGi is becoming more and more used over the whole field of computing.
| The DoD, Open Source, and OSGi as a Server Infrastructure | Kit Plummer and Brian ONeil | |
| How To Build Large Scale Enterprise Applications Using OSGi | David Savage |  |
| Android and OSGi: Can they work together? | BJ Hargrave and Neil Bartlett | |
| The Virtual OSGi Framework | Jan S. Rellermeyer | |
| BUG: A Customizable Hardware and Software Platform using Linux, Java, and OSGi | Ken Gilmer and Angel Roman | |
Tutorials
The tutorials gave a great opportunity to get some hands on experience with OSGi.
| Building Secure OSGi Applications | Marcel Offermans and Karl Pauls | |
| Remotely deploying Equinox with Maynstall | Patrick Dempsey | |
| Spring DM, formerly called Spring-OSGi | Bernd Kolb, Adrian Colyer, Martin Lippert, and BJ Hargrave | |
| The OSGi Complete | Pavlin Dobrev | |
| Getting Started with OSGi, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Service Registry | Neil Bartlett | |
| Maven, Eclipse and OSGi working together | Carlos Sanchez | |
| An introduction to Pax tools for OSG | Stuart McCulloch | |
Short Talks
The Short talks were ten minute talks that provided an insight in a specific topic and a perfect way to get a quick introduction in an area t
| From Rock Solid To Bundle Solid Or “Benefits of OSGi in a Command & Control Project | Tankut Koray | |
| Enterprise Expert Group Status Report | Tim Diekmann & Eric Newcomer | |
| Why Class.forName sucks! | BJ Hargrave | |
| Introducing OSGi technology to existing projects | Nils Hofseth Andersen | |
| Everything can be a bundle — automatically repairing pre-OSGi code | Erik Wistrand | |
| Modular web applications based on OSGi | Jochen Hiller | |
| Using OSGi Metadata with a Standard Class Loader | David Kemper | |
| Introduction to the Newton Project, distributed OSGi & SCA | Robert Dunne | |
| Eclipse Application Container: Not Just for UI Anymore | Thomas Watson | |
| How to distribute Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi with the Newton Project | David Savage | |
| What’s next for OSGi? | BJ Hargrave | |
Panel
And last but not least, we had a panel. The topic that was most submitted this year was the dichotomy between services and extensions. In this area, your perspective usually defines how you look upon these. Coming from Eclipse you probably like extensions, coming from a more traditional OSGi background services look pretty good. Interestingly, the Jazz people seem to have invented some middle ground. The panel had all the experts in the world in this area: BJ Hargrave, Neil Bartlett, Jeff McAffer, and James Branigan. The panel was moderated by Peter Kriens, the OSGi Evangelist.
| Panel: Services Versus Extensions | Peter Kriens |
BOF
The OSGi Alliance held a reception on Tuesday ay 19.30hrs which the board of the OSGi Alliance attended.
Additional OSGi Talks
| BlueOcean: An OSGi/Eclipse based Middleware for NextGen Collaboration | Manu Kuchhal | |
| Methodologies for Test-Driven Development of OSGi enabled Embedded Devices | Marcus Harringer, Christine Mitterbauer | |
| RESTful OSGi Web Applications Tutorial | Khawaja S Shams, Jeff Norris | |
| OSGi, Eclipse and Maven | Eugene Kuleshov | |
| Practical testing of Eclipse plugins and OSGi bundles | Philippe Ombredanne | |
| Using Dependency Injection to Integrate Eclipse Extensions with OSGi Services | Neil Bartlett | |
| Announcing the Sprint Next Generation Java Platform | Mark Rogalski, Joachim Ritter, Jay Indurkar | |
| Transactions in Eclipse Based SOA | Roman Roelofsen | |