Comments on: Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer

By: Encountering OSGi | CIBER Knowledge

Encountering OSGi | CIBER Knowledge — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:22:08 +0000

[...] The inclusion of companies like Nokia, Nortel and Ericsson in OSGi’s members list hints at the origins of OSGi: initially created as a platform to be used in home automation (R1 and R2), it has been used in vehicle automation (R3), mobile devices and the Eclipse Project (R4). The Java enterprise community has also started to take notice, with interest growing especially in the past two years. OSGi history and the new enterprise interest are discussed in an interview with Peter Kriens. In response to the newly emerging usage, OSGi has formed the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group (EEG). Enterprise requirements such as distributed environments, additional security and messaging are investigated in this group and will be part of the next release of OSGi. The history of OSGi is addressed again, as well as the formation of the EEG, in an interview with EEG co-chair Eric Newcomer. [...]

By: Confused

Confused — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:43:45 +0000

Is OSGi really part of Java ME/Java SE? Isn’t that what the big deal with JSR 277 is about? I’m confused.

By: Vinny Carpenter’s blog » Daily del.icio.us for January 17th

Vinny Carpenter’s blog » Daily del.icio.us for January 17th — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:43:24 +0000

[...] People Over Process » Enterprise OSGi, a Discussion with Eric Newcomer – While at the Eclipse Runtime Summit, I had the chance to talk with Iona’s Eric Newcomer (CTO of Iona, Co-Chair, Enterprise Expert Group, OSGi Alliance, and well respected coding guy) about the emergence of OSGi as a server-side, or enterprise technology [...]