How To Build Large Scale Enterprise Applications Using OSGi

OSGi started out as a technology for building software for embedded devices, but it's applicability goes far wider than this as demonstrated by the activities in the OSGi Expert Enterprise Group over the past 18 months. This talk will review some of the challenges and benefits of taking OSGi out of the device, off the desktop and into enterprise scale deployments. There will be a review of the problem domain; discussion of applicable patterns; and references to a real world implementation. The talk will be technical in nature with code samples, and attendees should ideally have a basic understanding of OSGi.

How to distribute Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi

The Spring Framework has adopted OSGi for its component architecture. This talk will discuss how using the Newton open source distributed OSGi framework it is possible to transparently distribute Spring-OSGi based applications. A review of the basics of the Newton Project will be provided along with examples of how a Spring application developed on a single machine can be simply scaled out across a distributed environment. The session will also explain how Newton not only provides scale out but adds other benefits including automated deployment, dynamic resilience and simplified administration using a document driven approach.

An Introduction to the Newton Project - distributed OSGi and SCA

The Newton Project is an open source framework, built upon OSGi and SCA standards, that provides a lightweight, distributed framework for next generation composite applications built out of OSGi bundles and described as SCA documents. In addition to distribution, Newton also provides a simple automated deployment model for application code and middleware, along with a sophisticated provisioning capability for ensuring application availability even under failure scenarios.