Eric Newcomer is a global integration architect in the CTO Department at Credit Suisse and is former CTO of IONA and a TP Architect at Digital Equipment (now part of HP). He was co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group from its inception in January 2007 through July, 2009 and a member of the OSGi Board of Directors for 2008. He has contributed to many enterprise software products and standards during a 30-year career.

Eric is co-author with Phil Bernstein of "Principles of Transaction Processing, Second Edition" published in June 2009, co-author with Greg Lomow of "Understanding SOA with Web Services," published in 2004, and author of "Understanding Web Services," published in 2002.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Concept, Technology, Tools

SPEAKER: Eric Newcomer   COMPANY: Credit Suisse

The presentation will provide an overview of the OSGi modularity standard, including a brief introduction, its current level of adoption, what's in the new release (R4.2 is being published in September), and the current debates about its use in enterprise Java.

The OSGi specification started as a standard for an embedded technology framework but it is probably best known for its use in Eclipse plug-ins. Currently the OSGi framework is adopted by most enterprise Java vendors for internal use as a kind of "SOA inside" approach to modularization. IBM for example has more than 200 products shipping on OSGi, and many Oracle products are shipped on OSGi as well.

Smaller vendors, such as SpringSource and Paremus, as well as open source projects such as Apache ServiceMix and Apache Aries, are starting to promote the direct use of the OSGi programming model in developing enterprise applications, and some early adopters such as LinkedIn and VMware have started to do so. With the new release in September, and future plans for additional enterprise capabilities, this could be a good time to begin evaluating the potential benefits and adoption challenges of OSGi for enterprise Java applications.

The presentation will explain:

• Brief introduction to OSGi, including the specification and runtime framework
• Current adoption level of OSGi
• The potential benefits and challenges of adopting the OSGi programming model
• What's in the new release (R4.2) and what's planned for future releases

Talk and Slides in English

Eric Newcomer is a global integration architect in the CTO Department at Credit Suisse and is former CTO of IONA and a TP Architect at Digital Equipment (now part of HP). He was co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group from its inception in January 2007 through July, 2009 and a member of the OSGi Board of Directors for 2008. He has contributed to many enterprise software products and standards during a 30-year career.

Eric is co-author with Phil Bernstein of "Principles of Transaction Processing, Second Edition" published in June 2009, co-author with Greg Lomow of "Understanding SOA with Web Services," published in 2004, and author of "Understanding Web Services," published in 2002.

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