Backers demonstrate enhancements that make the data-communications specification work effectively in distributed environments.The effort to deliver a distributed Open Services Gateway Initiative
solution got a boost this week when backers of the
technology demonstrated
their latest work at the OSGi Community Event.
Eric Newcomer, CTO at Iona Technologies,
and David Bosschaert, a principal engineer at Iona,
presented the "first ever" public
demonstration of Distributed OSGi at the event held June 11-12 in Berlin.
Although OSGi started life in the embedded space, it has rapidly
been adopted in the enterprise ever since it was chosen as the underlying
platform for Eclipse. The OSGi framework specification forms the basis of the
Eclipse Runtime. And there are about a thousand commercial products and open-source
projects that use OSGi technology.
Meanwhile, embedded systems for automobiles, trains, home automation,
factories, smart phones, airport kiosks and multimedia continue to gain in
power. As they do, many application developers are turning to OSGi
technology for its dynamic update capabilities and ability to successfully
incorporate heterogeneous devices.
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