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Neil Bartlett

More options Jan 26 2008, 3:55 am

From: Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:55:34 -0800 (PST)

Local: Sat, Jan 26 2008 3:55 am

Subject: Re: OSGi on the Server Side and the matter of the WOO

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Some more evidence for you:

* IBM WebSphere Application Server is already based on an OSGi runtime
(specifically Eclipse Equinox).

* BEA committed a while back to developing ALL of their new products
on OSGi. In their marketing literature they refer to the BEA "micro
Services Architecture" or mSA, which is essentially OSGi plus some
utilities on top. An internal source at BEA told me that eventually
their flagship product, WebLogic Application Server, would probably be
converted to OSGi.

* BEA's strategy is unlikely to change after the acquisition by
Oracle, since Oracle are also strong supporters of OSGi. They are on
the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group, and their EclipseLink product offers
persistence services for OSGi.

* JBoss uses OSGi in their ESB platform. Another open source ESB,
Mule, is aiming to convert to OSGi in a future version.

* As you noted, SpringSource/Interface21 are supporters. In his blog,
Rod Johnson stated his intention to push the JEE 6 expert group
towards the use of OSGi for delivering modularity in JEE.

* Last year, even Sun joined the OSGi Alliance. In fact they RE-
joined, since they were founding members.

However, I wouldn't say that these developments are negative for the
"JSR crowd". Remember that OSGi R4.1 has been standardised under the
JCP via JSR 291 (for Java SE) and JSR 232 (for Java ME). OSGi itself
began life as JSR 008.

Regards
Neil

On Jan 26, 1:14 am, RogerV <rog...@qwest.net> wrote:

> Intimations that the WOO for OSGi may indeed be 2008:

> Michael Coté, an industry analyst with RedMonk, reports that the
> Eclipse foundation is targeting moving OSGi into the server
> application environment:

> OSGi in Java - Eclipse Equinox Screencast and Video Serieshttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/01/17/osgi-in-java-eclipse-equinox-s...

> "What's new, and very much in the cards for 2008 is Eclipse moving
> into the server side, into an even more tooling and framework position
> for the Java world."

> "At the core of their strategy is OSGi"

> Then there is the Spring Framework itself that is making an OSGi move
> with a v1.0 release:

> Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi: simplified development of OSGi
> applicationshttp://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/spring-dm

> So there we have two big movers and shakers of the Java platform world
> (Eclipse and Spring) pushing OSGi for server-side enterprise
> development.

> Looks like once again the JSR crowd are going to be too late to the
> party.

> Oh, here is an interesting intro article describing OSGi as "SOA" for
> the internal structure of an app:

> Of Programming and Architecture: SOA in a JVMhttp://blogs.nagarro.net/kayser/soa-in-a-jvm/

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