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Universal Middleware: What’s Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care
In this article we’ll examine the need for the kind of container model provided by the OSGi, outline the capabilities it would provide, and discuss its relationship to complementary technologies such as SOA, SCA, and Spring. Enterprise software is often composed of large amounts of complex interdependent logic that makes it hard to adapt readily to changes in requirements from the business. You can enable this kind of agility by following a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) pattern that refactors a system into application modules grouped by business functions that expose their public functionality as services (interfaces).
OSGi at Linkedin – Bundle Repositories
Let’s start with some numbers. As of this writing (January 2009), our repository of external libraries contains 200 jar files. Only 8 of them are bundles out of the box (4%). I believe that this small sample reflects the harsh reality out there: over 95% of the available libraries are not bundle.
WSO2 Carbon: New SOA platform based on OSGi
WSO2, an open-source SOA infrastructure software maker, released today a platform of integrated middleware components called Carbon. Each component in Carbon is built on the OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) specification.
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The OSGi Look 