Archive for March, 2009
OSGi DevCon: GlassFish v3, OSGi Equinox Felix
ApacheCon Europe 2009: OSGi, Tales from the trenches
Configuration Admin Service explained: the ManagedService interface
Update: don’t miss the second article on the OSGi Configuration Admin Service: Factory pattern on steroids: the ManagedServiceFactory
As chapter 104.1 of the OSGi compendium specification states:
The Configuration Admin service is an important aspect of the deployment
of an OSGi Service Platform. It allows an Operator to set the configuration
information of deployed bundles.
Configuration is the process of [...]
SpringSource Plans for building OSGi applications
In the recent days and weeks, we’ve seen an increasing amount of interest in the future of build solutions for applications made up of OSGi bundles. Due to our heavy involvement with OSGi, this is something that is near and dear to our hearts and we’ve spent a long time looking at customer requirements and [...]
OSGi on the stage at ApacheCon Europe
The upcoming ApacheCon Europe (Amsterdam, March 23-27, 2009) will feature a series of presentations for OSGi practitioners. Be sure to book now if you want to miss them!
Wednesday 25th
Embrace OSGi – A Developer’s Quickstart, by Carsten Ziegeler
Tales from the OSGi trenches, by Bertrand Delacretaz
OSGi as Framework for Building a Product Line: Experience and Best Practices, [...]
Coming Soon in your Bundle Directory: Grizzly HTTP Service
It’s not officially released, but available for testing: Grizzly OSGi Http Service Ready for testing.
Grizzly, the scalable, high performance Servlet container originally developed for the Glassfish project, is now an OSGi bundle providing the OSGi HTTP service.
There aren’t many details out there yet, but you can grab the bundle at
http://download.java.net/maven/2/com/sun/grizzly/osgi/grizzly-httpservice/1.9.9-SNAPSHOT/
and start playing with it.
Some code [...]
Extenders – an introduction
It feels like recently extenders became extremely fashionable among the OSGi community. Eclipse is using an extender like pattern to track their plugin.xml configurations and Spring DM introduced the plain osgi extender together with a special web extender. It seems like everyone has one lately, but what is all the buzz about and how should [...]
Provisioning Amazon EC2 with OSGi
Neil Bartlett, the author of OSGi in Practice, has came up with S3Install,
… a very simple runtime OSGi bundle for provisioning an Amazon EC2 node. It is modelled on the FileInstall bundle by Peter Kriens, but instead of monitoring a local directory it monitors an S3 “bucket”. So, you can drop a bundle JAR into [...]
Running plain Java applications in OSGi
Observing different efforts in the OSGi space I noticed a camp of developers who believe that the whole OSGi Concept shouldn’t conflict much with past or simply not-osgi efforts so it wouldn’t require from developers any OSGi-specific efforts to run their application inside the OSGi Environment, with this approach developers could run their OSGi-oblivious applications [...]
