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JavaOne - OSGi Is Huge Here!

Posted by: Vladimir Vivien on 05/08/2008

If you doubted that OSGi can achieve mass appeal, the list of sessions at J1 proves contrary. Most major tool vendors has either implemented it or have plans to support OSGi bundles:

OSGi has been in IBM's arsenal for while now (Eclipse, Websphere, etc)
SpringSource's new Spring Application Platform uses OSGi has its
Glassfish Version 3 will be OSGi-bundle compatible
JBoss 5's kernel will load its component as OSGi
JSR 277, the Java Module system, slated for JDK7, can load OSGi bundles

From small embedded devices, to desktop, to the large application server, OSGi seems to be the component model that the industry is adopting. It will be interesting to see how the corporate developer integrates OSGi in their development rituals.

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About Vladimir Vivien

Vladimir Vivien is a software engineer living in the United States. Past and current experiences include development in Java and C#.Net for industries including publishing, financial, and healthcare. He has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Groovy/Grails, JavaFX, SunSPOT, BugLabs, module/component-based development, and anything else that runs on the JVM.

Vladimir is the author of "JavaFX Application Development Cookbook" published by Packt Publishing. He is the creator of the Groovv JmxBuilder open source project, a JMX DSL, that is now part of the Groovy language. Other open source endeavor includes JmxLogger and GenShell. You can follow Vladimir through his blog: http://blog.vladimirvivien.com/, Twitter: http://twitter.com/vladimirvivien, and Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vvivien.

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