SpringSource Application Platform + Bundle Repository

When SpringSource announced their Application Platform and Bundle Repository I was very excited. The Bundle Repository was in one word: stunning ... the Application Platform was, however, a bit of a shock!

Is There a Place for OSGi in Enterprise Application Development?

How ready is OSGi to be used for real? How does OSGi address the lack of versioning of Java classes and the lack of modularity in the context of classpath hell.

Enhanced Manageability with OSGi, SCA, BPEL and Spring

Ever since the OpenSOA initiative published the white paper entitled: "Power Combination, SCA, OSGi and Spring", the combination of these three technologies has generated some interest. There is even a commercial implementation of such an infrastructure.

Infiniflow: Next-Generation Distributed Application Server based on OSGi and SCA

Paremus recently released version 1.2 of Infiniflow , a next-generation distributed application server based on OSGi and SCA. InfoQ spoke with Paremus Marketing Manager Andrew Rowney to learn more about this release and about Infiniflow's new application server model.

OSGi and The Rise of The Stackless Stack: Just in Time

OSGi has massive potential. It is an industry changer. Any time an initiative from the cell phone and device world is enthusiastically adopted by major middleware vendors you think it has to be worth examining.

Introducing Service Component Architecture (SCA)

For the past twelve months, I have been involved with the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications and two of the open source SCA implementations. Now that SCA is gaining industry traction, I would like to use my weblog here to introduce the technology and demonstrate how SCA can be used for building standards-based enterprise class applications using service oriented principles and paradigms, through a series of weblog entries covering both the theory and practical aspects of SCA.

Tech Road Map: OSGi Spreads Its Wings

OSGi™ is big news - it has the potential to change the deployment and runtime model for enterprise applications. By understanding system components, OSGi enables IT to publish services from one component to another and to install, uninstall, stop, start, refresh, and update components. OSGi is now well on its way to becoming the first component model that spans embedded, desktop, and server applications into a state-of-the-art core container for server-side enterprise Java.

Self-* Networks: Helping Networks Help Themselves

This article discusses Autonomic Networks and Autonomic Communications, and dives into designing and building what we call self-* systems - systems which are designed specifically to be self-organizing and self-managing, including properties such as: self-defining, self-configuring, self-awareness, self-optimizing, self-protecting, self-healing (self-monitoring, self-diagnostics, self-restoration).

Leading-Edge Java: Polite and Impolite Services

In this interview with Artima, Robert Dunne, principal software engineer at Paremus, discusses three levels of dynamism, and why it's so difficult to deal with "impolite" services.

Introducing SCA

This overview provides an architectural introduction to SCA. The goal is to provide a big-picture view of what this technology offers, describe how it works, and show how its various pieces fit together.

Distributed SOA Runtime Guru Discusses Vision

Paremus CEO, Dr. Richard Nicholson, discusses his vision for distributed SOA with Roger Strukhoff at JavaOne.

The best way to fight complexity is to strive for IT simplicity

While IT infrastructure has obviously accelerated the pace, reach and agility of business, it has also introduced a huge amount of complexity into enterprise fabrics. Typically, roughly 80 percent of an IT budget is spent on maintenance and development of existing enterprise systems while 10 percent of the entire workforce is devoted to IT operations.

OSGi Alliance Reaching Universal Middleware Goal

OSGi might not roll off the tongue, but in a little more than eight years of life it has become a quiet contender for the title of most important technology of the decade. OSGi began in 1999 as the Open Services Gateway initiative, but the OSGi Alliance now describes its mission as the creation of a market for "universal middleware".

Survey Highlights Risks of Infrastructure Complexity

mValent Inc., a leading provider of automated IT configuration management solutions for managing application infrastructure, today announced the results of a survey of Fortune 1000 IT professionals conducted in March. "Our survey results highlight the significant risk and hard-dollar costs associated with managing the increased IT complexity that' s due in large part to the rapid proliferation of distributed applications, " said Jim Hickey, chief marketing officer with mValent.

Why OSGi Technology is Strategic

The potential gains of using OSGi technology in the development process are large. Most organizations that produce and use software can have tremendous savings if they adopt the OSGi specifications. The specifications provide a solid foundation to integrate the myriad of external components that are being used in software development today. The grass-root adoption by the developers that we are seeing today proves that the technical foundation is solid. Any CIO or CEO that recognizes the potential can be sure that the technology works.

Defense consortium uses Infiniflow for dynamic Semantic SOA Transforms the Way the World Runs Applications

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading systems, solutions and technical services company, is leading a consortium that is building a dynamic Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA) solution. The initial prototype is being demonstrated at the Defense Intelligence Agency CIO-sponsored Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Worldwide 2007 conference.

Paremus Releases New Platform Leveraging OGSi, SCA

At the EclipseCon conference, Paremus today announced the release of several new Infiniflow products that will transform the way the world runs composite applications. Infiniflow Enterprise Service Fabric (ESF) is a robust, lightweight, standards-based SOA platform capable of supporting the simplest application and the most sophisticated composite business system. Infiniflow increases business agility while simultaneously reducing cost and complexity.