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.
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. Vladimir enjoys taking part in open source projects. He is a contributor on Groovy project (he is the creator of JmxBuilder) and author of other project such as JmxLogger (http://code.google.com/p/jmx-logger/). Vladimir runs the Tampa Java User Group (Tampa, FL).
He has a wide range of technology interests including Java, OSGi, Groovy/Grails, JavaFX, SunSPOT, BugLabs, and anything else that runs on the JVM. He thinks the future direction of the Java platform is hidden in languages such as Groovy and Scala.
More About Vladimir »
