OSGi

Developing Enterprise OSGi Applications (continued)

In this lab you'll be creating a simple blogging website using the free IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Developmer Tools for eclipse. The content you'll be creating has been adapted from the Apache Aries Blog Sample. Apache Aries is the open source project that delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model.

A Platform for the Internet of Things

Bosch Software Innovations is developing a platform for the Internet of Things -- integrating sensors, actors, and mobile end devices. The platform abstracts out the communication protocols used by the ’’things’’ and provides a clean semantic view on their functionalities.

This presentation will start with some usage scenarios for the platform and will then give an overview of the platform’s OSGi-based architecture and its benefits for developing internet-based applications.

Workflow for development, release and versioning with OSGi / bndtools: real-world challenges (continued)

Seeing the advantages of the OSGi modularity level, we want to introduce it into our daily workflow, based on Eclipse and the bndtools plugin.
In this talk we concentrate on the modularity level, independent of whether the service layer is used or not.

Initial requirements for our research group at Siemens, Corporate Technology include:
- integration of OSGi with the currently-used VCS (subversion, hg, git)
- integration of OSGi with our Jenkins CI server
- automated creation of deployable applications, which might include a collection of artifacts, start scripts, installers

Native-OSGi, Modular Software Development in a Native world (continued)

Where creating modular, loosely-coupled, and dynamic software components on the Java platform is becoming the de-facto standard, this is not yet the case for (embedded) native software, mainly due to a lack of standardized solutions. To fill this gap, several native OSGi like implementations currently exist, but they all provide their own implementation and design. To be able to reuse bundles from different implementations, more information and specifications are needed.

Best Practices for Enterprise OSGi Applications (continued)

Since the first release of the OSGi Enterprise specification in March 2010 the use of OSGi in the enterprise has increased dramatically. Moving traditional Java EE applications to an OSGi stack is intentionally as easy as possible, however there are a number of common mistakes that can make it feel very hard. This session will describe some best practices for developing Enterprise OSGi applications and OSGi bundles, allowing developers to utilise the power of OSGi in a painless way. This talk is recommended to anyone who is looking to improve their OSGi principles.