what's next for osgi™?

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What's next for OSGi™?

BJ Hargrave

Senior Technical Staff Member

IBM Lotus

What’s next for OSGi? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved. Source code in this presentation is made available under the EPL, v1.0, remainder of the presentation is licensed under Creative Commons Att. Nc Nd 2.5 license.

Core Specification Update

• Declarative Services update• Manifest rewriting• Service Registry Hooks• Class Loading enhancements• ServiceException• BundleTracker (extender pattern)• Concurrency documentation• "Negative" permissions• Bundle-License header


Enterprise Specification

• Current design focus is on

Distributed OSGi Component model (Spring Dynamic Modules)

• Drove requirements for a number of changes in the Core Specification

• Goal is to contribute to next version of OSGi specification Public draft targeted for the end of 2008

• Continue work on new requirements and design area

• Work on RI and TCK to begin soon


Mobile Specification Update

•Since the release of JSR 232 the specification is in maintenance mode

Small corrections made to the spec, RI and TCKA maintenance release for JSR 232 was published

to allow new OSGi framework versions to be usedCorresponding TCK update is ongoing

•Next work item: App model standardization Investigating standardizing an existing app model

from open source


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Residential Specification• Residential Expert Group has been officially created in November 2007

after an extensive requirements collection

• The current focus is on Remote Management of Home/Residential Gateways incl.: Definition of a Remote Management Reference Architecture Remote Management of OSGi Middleware via TR-069 Support for Multiple Service Providers on one OSGi Middleware OSGi Middleware as an UPnP Device

• Goal is to finish the work on designs, RIs and TCKs by the end of 2008 / beginning of 2009

• OSGi Alliance and Home Gateway Initiative organizing a common requirements workshop to align the work of both organizations


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Vehicle Specification Update

• OSGi Alliance organized two requirements workshops in 2007 to which non-member companies have also been invited January 11th in Troy, Michigan, 20 Participants (Ford, GM, Delphi,…) March 22nd in Eindhoven, 20 Participants (VW, Ford, SiemensVDO,..)

• New requirements have been generated based on the results of the workshops Vehice Interface, Navigation Domain Model SDK, etc.

• New/more active member companies are required to follow up with developing Vehicle specifications, reference implementations and test suites

• OSGi Alliance is organizing another workshop after the Telematics Update Conference in the Detroit area to recruit new members to work on the Vehicle Specification


Marketing Committee Update• Successful PR and marketing

Increasing positive awareness in the industries Redmonk: “OSGi and The Rise of The Stackless Stack – Just In Time” SDA India: “Top 5 Java Technologies to Learn in 2008” SD Times: “… quite a contender of the title most important technology of the

decade” Increasing references/success stories on deployments

• New trademark policy available http://www.osgi.org/Main/TrademarkPolicy

• In the works: Certification mark policy for products White Paper and ppt for decision-makers in various industries Success Stories (embedded and enterprise)

• OSGi Events: OSGi DevCon at EclipseCon, March 17-20, Santa Clara OSGi Community Event 2008, June 10-11, Berlin

• Latest news: http://www.osgi.org/News/HomePage


Website News

• Website refreshed with new layout and content http://www.osgi.org

• Blog feed http://www.osgi.org/Blog/Feed

• News feed http://www.osgi.org/News/Feed

• New OSGi Users’ Forums – China, Sweden http://www.osgi.org/Forums/HomePage


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