OSGi – The Missing Piece Of The Jigsaw
Ian Robinson explains where OSGi fits into the Java ecosystem, presenting the needs met by OSGi, the framework’s current status and a peek of future developments.
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OSGi Early Draft Available
The OSGi Alliance has made available the Early Draft specifications for the next release of the OSGi platform. As a draft specification, specific features may differ and some may be missing or replaced. Read on for what's new.
Modularity Maturity Model
At the OSGi Community Event, Dr Graham Charters introduced the Modularity Maturity Model, a way of scoring where projects or organisations against how their modular developments score.
Requirements of a Standard Java Module System
Yesterday, Mark Reinhold posted the first public draft of the future of modularity in Java. As it is a draft, there are a handful of issues that still need to be agreed on - but it represents the consensus of what modularity in Java should look like. And with IBM being involved, there's more emphasis on interoperability with OSGi than there has been in the past.
Hudson Resurrected as Hudson 2.0
The first significant release of Hudson since the Hudson/Jenkins fork has been released, with a new versioning scheme following OSGi/Semantic Versioning going forward. This includes a new JSR330 dependency injection model to make it easier to run in an OSGi runtime as well as decoupling from specific Hudson annotations.
Presentations about Modularity
The Future of Java EE
Jerome Dochez unveils the features planned for Java EE 7: Cloud Computing support, Modularity enhancements, richer Web Tier – Web Socket, HTML5, JSON-, JMS 2.0, and JPA 2.1, plus the roadmap.
Panel: Modular Java
Alex Blewitt, Kevin Seal and Alex Buckley discuss modularity in Java, answering questions from the audience: when is modularity needed, how to address modularity, what are the similarities and differences in modularity between Jigsaw and .NET, and what are the improvements in OSGi-based development?
Modular Web Applications with OSGi and the RFC66 Web Container
In this presentation from SpringOne 2009, Rob Harrop provides a tutorial on creating effective modular web applications for OSGi and the RFC66 Web Container. Topics include the design and modularization of web applications, extending web applications dynamically using standard OSGi features, and using the OSGi Web Container (RFC66) to deploy web applications on an OSGi platform.
Interviews about Modularity
Jerome Dochez Discusses Early Plans for Java EE 7, Planned to Ship in 2012
In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Glassfish architect Jerome Dochez talks to Charles Humble about plans for Java EE 7. The interview covers what Java EE 6 has achieved, possible additional profiles, the impact of the cloud, new features planned for the platform, and modularity.
