{"id":1983,"date":"2009-04-28T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2009-04-28T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T17:46:30","slug":"osgi-uk-user-group-kick-off-making-java-digestable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/osgi-uk-user-group-kick-off-making-java-digestable\/","title":{"rendered":"OSGi UK User Group Kick-Off. Making Java Digestable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago we had the inaugural meeting of the OSGi UK user group. I am one of the founding members, but the driving force behind the creation of the forum is a UK startup, and client of mine, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paremus.com\/\">Paremus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is OSGi? I explained in a post about what we dubbed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2008\/02\/05\/osgi-and-the-rise-of-the-stackless-stack-just-in-time\/\">Stackless Stack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OSGi allows modules of Java classes to be loaded\u00a0on demand. There is no need to load the entire Java stack to run an application &#8211; just the runtime services it actually requires. OSGi therefore enables a more dynamic, less constricted Java, which\u00a0partially explains its enthusiastic backing from major vendors such as IBM, BEA and Oracle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed if the Oracle Sun deal goes through OSGi will receive a major boost, but that&#8217;s a topic for a different post. OSGi and Spring are both technologies that make enterprise Java a lot easier to use &#8211; interesting times for the venerable language and runtime.<\/p>\n<p>We held the meeting in the Merrill Lynch Financial Centre in Houndsditch, and there was a good smattering of end users, vendors and integrators. Mike Francis introduced the new group, <a href=\"Merrill Lynch Financial Centre\">Neil Bartlett<\/a> then reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osgi.org\/DevCon2009\/HomePage\">OSGI Devcon<\/a> (held at EclipseCon) for the group, before David Savage, one of Paremus&#8217; developers, gave a talk explaining some of the complexities and limitations of current OSGi tooling.<\/p>\n<p>The slides can all be found over <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.osgiusers.org\/Main\/090407meetingslides\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its very early days, but hopefully the group has legs. If you&#8217;re in the enterprise Java space you should definitely join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago we had the inaugural meeting of the OSGi UK user group. I am one of the founding members, but the driving force behind the creation of the forum is a UK startup, and client of mine, called Paremus. What is OSGi? I explained in a post about what we dubbed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-vZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}