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TOTD #36: Deploy OSGi bundles in GlassFish using maven-bundle-plugin

arungupta — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:17:56 -0400

GlassFish v3 is a modular (OSGi compliant), embeddable (runs in-VM) and extensible (supports non-Java apps) Application Server.

Embeddable GlassFish in Action - Servlet in a Maven project

arungupta — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:19:10 -0400

Kohsuke announced the embedability of GlassFish v3 - this is really cool! Now you can run GlassFish inside an existing JVM, without the need to start it externally. The API javadocs are available here. This blog explains how to host a Servlet using these APIs and write a simple Maven test to invoke the Servlet - all within the same VM.

What's GlassFish Doing With OSGi?

geertjan — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:58:44 -0400

OSGi has certainly seen a lot of engagement in the weeks leading up to JavaOne 2008. Jerome Dochez, the GlassFish architect and a Principal Engineer at Sun, tells us about how it fits in with GlassFish. Hi Jerome, what've you been up to recently?

Interview: Rod Johnson on the SpringSource Application Platform

geertjan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:37:51 -0400

SpringSource has released a server platform, based on OSGi. Not only do its internals use OSGi, but developers will also be able to make use of it directly. What does that mean? And what are the benefits? What's going on with SpringSource?

Glassfish V3: A Major Win for OSGi

aslamkhn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:16:56 -0400

Jerome Dochez, the architect and tech lead for GlassFish, announced that GlassFish V3 now runs on OSGi. More significant, though, is that OSGi has been chosen as the module system for GlassFish. This is a big win for the OSGi camp in their on-going battle with JSR 277.

Is There a Place for OSGi in Enterprise Application Development? (Part 2)

aslamkhn — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:09:16 -0400

In part 1, Aslam Khan, technical director of PBT Group, introduced us to OSGi. Today, in the final part, he completes his argument about OSGi's applicability in the enteprise.

My thoughts about OSGi on JavaWorld

sarbogast — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:25:10 -0400

A few weeks ago, I’ve been interviewed by Andrew Glover for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider podcast and it’s been published today. So without further ado, feel free to check out our talk here.

Is There a Place for OSGi in Enterprise Application Development? (Part 1)

aslamkhn — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:36:09 -0400

In this two-part article, Aslam Khan, technical director of PBT Group, a software consultancy based in South Africa, introduces you to OSGi and discusses its relevance specifically in the context of the enterprise. What is the exact problem domain of OSGi in this area? In this first part, he uses code snippets to show how the issues surrounding dynamic class management can be tackled. --...

OSGi Community Event - Call for Speakers

ian skerrett — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:16:52 -0400

After a very successful 2007 OSGi Community Event, the OSGi Alliance is pleased to announce the 2008 OSGi Community Event. Community Event. Hosted by T-Labs, Deutsche Telekom AG, it will take place June 10-11, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Solstice alpha 0.3 released

brindy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:09:25 -0400

Out of the box, Solstice provides the following features:

ProSyst publishes OSGi for Android

pecsy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:08:19 -0400

Today ProSyst released the beta version of mBS for Android. mBS is the leading OSGi implementation in the embedded market. The beta release of the Android version is available from ProSyst Developer Zone. This release is under ProSyst Non-Commercial License, which permits free use for non-commercial trials.mBS Running on Android

Two more days of OSGiCon at EclipseCon

marrs — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:01:52 -0400

Wednesday, the opening keynote, by Sam Ramji from Microsoft, who got the point across quite well that Microsoft is serious about becoming part of the open source community. With a $5M budget, they actively participate in selected projects and encourage you to contact them. They showed a preview of Eclipse with SWT running on WPF, which, although not complete or very fast at this point, did work...

Prosyst Contributes to Equinox

jsugrue — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:39:14 -0400

Prosyst, an OSGi pioneer have announced that it has contributed the following components to Eclipse Equinox: Initial Provisioning IO Connector Service Specification Wire Admin Service Specification Declarative Services Specification These four service specifications are now part of the Equinox Bundles project and can be downloaded from the Equinox website.

The first two days of OSGiCon at EclipseCon

marrs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:22:15 -0400

After having been to the OSGi developers world conference in 2005, where I presented the dependency manager that is now part of Apache Felix, in 2008 Karl Pauls and I are back at OSGiCon which has since merged with EclipseCon and has become quite a big event.Hosted in Santa Clara, California, the event lasts for four days and whilst a lot of content is somehow related to Eclipse, there are a lot...

Eclipse Equinox - Fulfilling the Promise of Write Once Run Anywhere

jsugrue — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:30:12 -0400

The major announcement this week at EclipseCon surrounds Equinox becoming a top level project. Just before the conference I caught up with two of the leading people in the Eclipse community to discuss this announcement and what it means. Ian Skerrett is Director of Marketing for the Eclipse Foundation, and a regular contributor to Eclipse Zone. Jeff McAffer is Equinox Project Lead, leads the...

Creating a Domain Specific Language for OSGi

roman.roelofsen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:22:02 -0500

Probably the most interesting language currently is Scala, "a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way". Scala combines the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. Besides several very interesting programming constructs, Scala provides a 100% interoperability with Java. Scala code can...

Sprint Nextel Goes Live with Mobile OSGi

jr80038 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:21:15 -0500

This week’s news from Sprint Nextel marks a cornerstone of OSGi adoption: Sprint has released its first developer version of the Titan platform, an OSGi based next generation mobile Java stack. Titan was announced on the last Application Developer Program (ADP) Conference and is now made

But what is OSGi?

sarbogast — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:55:16 -0500

I've been trying to write an introductory article about OSGi for a few days. But the problem is that it's such a a simple yet powerful technology that I didn't really know where to start, what angle was best. And then I found two excellent articles that really... "opened my eyes" and that I want to share with you:

A Comparison of OSGi and Android

roman.roelofsen — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:43:52 -0500

Last year, the Open Handset Alliance announced Android, a platform specially targeted at mobile devices. Due to the support from Google, Android received a lot of attention in the community. However, one of the hottest technologies for 2008 is OSGi, a technology rooted in the embedded world.

University Session on OSGi

marrs — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:58:56 -0500

Wednesday February 27th, starting at 18:30, the NL-JUG and luminis host a University Session about OSGi in the Van der Valk Hotel De Biltsche Hoek. If you are a member of the NL-JUG, you can register for this session for free. If not, a membership is only 29,75 euros.

JBoss is working on OSGi too

sarbogast — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:31:01 -0500

I wanted to download the latest version of JBoss AS to deploy it to a new server, and while I was wandering round their site to see what is going on, I found an interview of Ales Justing by Mark Newton about the work they’re doing with OSGi. Apparently they are not waiting for it to happen. They’re really taking part in it, which is refreshing because ever since Redhat

EclipseCon Early Registration Deadline is Approaching

ian skerrett — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:51:06 -0500

The deadline for EclipseCon early registration is Thursday, February 14. If you register before this date, you will save $300.EclipseCon features a dense program of technical content about all things Eclipse. In addition, we are co-hosting a couple of interesting events:1) the OSGi DevCon, so if you want to learn more about OSGi this is a great event to attend.

Why an OSGi Zone?

sarbogast — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:32:14 -0500

Until a few months ago, I had heard about OSGi but I didn't care. For me it was just some obscure standard Eclipse was running on and since I don't like Eclipse, I didn't like OSGi either.

Vote for OSGi integration with Java Modules

puredanger — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:40:27 -0500

Glyn Normington posted that a sunbug has been created to track OSGi support in JSR 277 (Java Modules). You can vote for the bug if you would like to see this support and I would encourage you to do so.

Towards a mainstream Open Source OSGi application server?

sarbogast — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:55:32 -0500

It’s official: SpringSource has just acquired Covalent. Or as I explained it to one of my colleagues, “the company behind our IoC framework has bought the one behind our application server”.