Mirko Jahn

Before starting, I just want to make clear that I am not a member of the OSGi Alliance nor a participant of any EG. I just happen to use OSGi since Eclipse started to investigate OSGi as their componentization model in its core. Since then I got more and more attached to OSGi and... (more)

Inspired by Peter’s comment I am following up on my last post on “The Myth about Software Reuse”. I received quiet a lot feedback concerning the topic and I felt I should share some of my thoughts and visions in order to answer some of the questions and destroy the concerns I may... (more)

The ones of you who know me, know that I believe in software reuse and I am trying to evangelize about it for quiet some time. Methods, Classes, Aspects, Components, Modules, Software Product Lines, you name it - everything is focused on reuse to some extend. With OSGi for the f... (more)

It feels like recently extenders became extremely fashionable among the OSGi community. Eclipse is using an extender like pattern to track their plugin.xml configurations and Spring DM introduced the plain osgi extender together with a special web extender. It seems like everyone... (more)

After some less OSGi technology centric posts I am now getting back to the meat and will highlight the problems involved with dynamic imports. In well designed OSGi applications the “DynamicImport-Package” header is obsolete should be. Unfortunately not every code is OSGi aware. ... (more)

Last week I gave an interview for my companies developer network. Of course such thing isn’t much of a big deal. I mean it’s the company you are working for - they are always looking for content for their website, but for me however this was different. In my blog I usually tend t... (more)

Usually when I am blogging, I am talking about the latest technology, standards or general trends. This time however, I wonna talk about politics. No, not about the elections in US, but about politics in software development practiced by the big players to achieve their business ... (more)

A lot of people are following the buzz about OSGi now and are excited about all the things it can do for you. A great world of new opportunities. Now, after the first draft of OSGi 4.2 it very much looks like we’re getting even more as an official OSGi standard (with RFC 124). Th... (more)

Legacy code in OSGi has always been a problem. OSGi has such a dynamic nature, most libraries are either not aware of the potential errors that can be imposed by suddenly disappearing bundles or just use techniques not suitable for the OSGi programming model, like absolute paths,... (more)

Last week the OSGi website[1] published the early draft of the OSGi R4.2 specification[2]. Reason enough to have a short look at what is covered in the upcoming release. First of all one has to notice that this is not a minor release as the version number may suggest. Release 4.... (more)

Migration of software systems to the OSGi platform is gaining momentum with wide acceptance of the OSGi technology as the dynamic module system for Java. This transition is of special interest when it comes to popular Java application frameworks, which attract a growing number of... (more)