Dynamic Java programs with OSGi/JSR 291

Alex Blewitt, Editor EclipseZone.com
Neil Bartlett, Consultant

15th February 2007, 12-2pm

Resources

Slides and example code are available here

Online slides and QuickTime movies of the demos are available here with audio commentary. Please add any feedback to the EclipseZone forum thread.

OSGi engines

• http://www.knopflerfish.org
• http://incubator.apache.org/felix
• http://www.eclipse.org/equinox

Documents/tutorials:

• http://www.osgi.org OSGi homepage, including JavaDocs and downloadable specs
• http://neilbartlett.name/blog/osgi-articles Neil's excellent set of introductory topics on OSGi
• http://oscar-osgi.sourceforge.net/tutorial Mini tutorial on OSGi
• http://www.knopflerfish.org/osgi_service_tutorial.html Services tutorial

Other links:

• http://www.eclipsezone.com Eclipse-specific but Equinox forum good for OSGi stuff
• http://www.4enterprise.org Paid for OSGi support

Venue

This presentation will introduce the concepts and purpose of the OSGi framework along with the three open-source implementations Apache Felix, Knopflerfish and Equinox. A Swing application will be demonstrated that shows the benefits of OSGi for dynamic systems, as well as loading multiple versions of the same code into the JVM concurrently. We'll conclude with a look to the future with JSR 291 and JSR 277.

Alex Blewitt is editor of EclipseZone.com and is a frequent speaker and writer on the subjects of OSGi and Eclipse. He is noted for his wacky tie collection.

Neil Bartlett is a consultant and developer specializing in OSGi. He presented at JSIG on the subject of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform in Feb 2006.

http://www.osgi.org
http://eclipsezone.com

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