Software Engineering Radio: OSGi with Peter Kriens and BJ Hargrave

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Hosts: Bernd  Martin 

Guests:

Peter Kriens
BJ Hargrave

Recording venue:

This episode is about OSGi, the dynamic module system for Java. Our guests are Peter Kriens (OSGI's Technical Director) and BJ Hargrave (OSGI's CTO). We'll discuss what OSGi is all about and why and in which contexts it is useful. Additionally we are having a look at the different layers of OSGI and where and how they are used. Other questions discussed are: What means dynamicity in an OSGI environment? Where is OSGI used? What’s the future of OSGI? How does OSGI interact with existing middleware solutions? How can I run several versions of the same JAR at the same time? Where are OSGI’s problems?

• The Website of the OSGi Alliance
• The OSGi Specification
• A repository of all kinds of different osgi modules
• JSR 291: Dynamic Component Support for Java SE
• The free OSGi Implementation Equinox
• The free OSGi Implementation Apache Felix
• The free OSGi Implementation Knopflerfish
• The Spring Framework can run on OSGi as well
• Run OSGi inside an App-Server
• Peter’s tools
• Tutorials for OSGi
• Peters blog
• Part 1 of a webinar series on OSGi – Running OSGi
• Part 2 of a webinar series on OSGi - Installing some bundles
• Part 3 of a webinar series on OSGi – Running some games
• Part 4 of a webinar series on OSGi – Installing a php wiki on top of OSGi