Recent Interviews

What's GlassFish Doing With OSGi?

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,...

0 replies - 2667 views - 05/02/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Interview: Rod Johnson on the SpringSource Application Platform

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....

5 replies - 6302 views - 04/30/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Glassfish V3: A Major Win for OSGi

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...

0 replies - 3141 views - 04/16/08 by Aslam Khan in News

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

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...

4 replies - 10741 views - 04/07/08 by Aslam Khan in News

My thoughts about OSGi on JavaWorld

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...

4 replies - 3083 views - 04/03/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

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

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...

2 replies - 10807 views - 03/31/08 by Aslam Khan in News

Two more days of OSGiCon at EclipseCon

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...

0 replies - 254 views - 03/20/08 by Marcel Offermans in News

The first two days of OSGiCon at EclipseCon

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...

0 replies - 1594 views - 03/19/08 by Marcel Offermans in News

Eclipse Equinox - Fulfilling the Promise of Write Once Run Anywhere

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...

5 replies - 7578 views - 03/17/08 by James Sugrue in News

Creating a Domain Specific Language for OSGi

Probably the most interesting language currently is Scala, "a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a...

7 replies - 1521 views - 03/03/08 by Roman Roelofsen in News

Sprint Nextel Goes Live with Mobile OSGi

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...

0 replies - 3584 views - 02/25/08 by Joachim Ritter in News

But what is OSGi?

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...

6 replies - 4473 views - 02/18/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

A Comparison of OSGi and Android

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...

5 replies - 2362 views - 02/15/08 by Roman Roelofsen in News

JBoss is working on OSGi too

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...

2 replies - 2272 views - 02/11/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Why an OSGi Zone?

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...

8 replies - 3808 views - 02/08/08 by Sebastien Arbogast in News