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OSGi has been in the press a lot lately. Everywhere you turn there is some new product or project adopting the technology. From Eclipse to Apache to Spring. From servers to desktops to embedded. OSGi enables the creation of highly modular, dynamic Java-based systems.
Wondering what its all about? Join book author and Equinox OSGi project co-lead Jeff McAffer (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321561510) and PDE OSGi tooling lead Chris Aniszczyk for an introduction to Equinox and OSGi concepts and look at the breadth and depth of technology available in this space.
Based on the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF), an open-source project managed by the Eclipse Foundation, the TOGAF Customizer can be used to implement TOGAF 9 more easily. TOGAF is an industry-consensus framework and method for enterprise architecture (EA) developed by The Open Group, and released in February.
In this interview from EclipseCon, I talk with multi-RedMonkTV guest Jeff McAffer, one of the leads on the Equinox project. Having spoken with him about Equinox many times before, I start by asking him to give us an update on what’s been going on in Equinox-land of late. In doing so, we speak about how Equinox is related to the OSGi Enterprise and other specifications.
The Riena project has just released it's 1.0 version recently. In this article, I'll show you how to get going with Riena by walking you through my own experiences using the project. As well as providing a little background on the project I will show how to create a UI with Riena, and run through an example of remote services.
The OSGi Alliance announced that many leading Enterprise Service Bus providers in the market have demonstrated their commitment to the platform through the current or planned employment of OSGi technology in their ESBs and products that utilize ESBs.
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| "At compeople Equinox is our primary runtime platform. We utilize it for our Riena open source project as well as for our enterprise applications. Equinox provides a homogeneous programming and runtime model for the client and server side, all based on the OSGi standard. Promoting Equinox Runtime as an Eclipse top level project is the next logical step to establish this unique platform as an open standard for Java applications," said Jürgen Wiesmaier, member of the board of directors and CTO of compeople AG." |
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| "Equinox and OSGi have enabled Band XI International to adapt to changing requirements in the embedded Java arena while reusing not only the component architecture, but many of the components themselves. We started with Cyrano, the HAZMAT sensor integration system used by the United States National Guard. Since then, Army research scientists have seen the power of Equinox and our components. We are now applying the same approach to solving problems in the area of fleet management and vehicle diagnostics and prognostics." |
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| "We are pleased to support the Eclipse Runtime Project since we are using Eclipse based tooling for our Artix and FUSE families of SOA infrastructure products," said Eric Newcomer, CTO, IONA Technologies. "IONA also supports the Apache ServiceMix project, which recently introduced an OSGi based implementation that works with Eclipse Equinox. Furthermore, because of our leadership in the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group we see an interesting future convergence between Eclipse and OSGi that has tremendous potential to influence the direction of enterprise computing infrastructure." |
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| "It is less than a year ago that Deutsche Post made the strategic decision to contribute its SOA platform SOPERA to Eclipse. In order to even better participate in the Eclipse innovation network it is now time to move on. Deutsche Post counts on the Equinox platform which is driven forward in the Eclipse Runtime Initiative." |
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| "Equinox is the result of the combined strength of Eclipse community implementation work and the proven standards of OSGi. OSGi is emerging as an important influence on the enterprise middleware space and the establishment of the Eclipse Runtime project and the central role of Equinox and EclipseLink are important milestones in its evolution." |
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