An image I swiped from MarkMail showing the increase in OSGi related posts on various mailing lists. No surprise that the most popular lists are Felix Dev and Spring-OSGi. The traffic shows the rise in interest in OSGi the past couple of years. Again, no surprise. It does appear, however, that most of the posts are closely tied to development of OSGi products (like Felix and Spring dm) and not from developers leveraging OSGi within their applications. OSGi hasn’t achieved deep enterprise penetration yet, and won’t until we get support from product vendors along with better tooling.
OSGi interest via MarkMail
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Kirk Knoernschild
on 11/19/2008
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In 2002, Kirk wrote the book Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process, published by Addison-Wesley. He has also written numerous whitepapers and articles, including The Agile Developer column for The Agile Journal. Kirk is the founder of Extensible Java, a growing resource of component design pattern heuristics for Java that can easily be applied to most other platforms, including .Net. Kirk has trained thousands of software professionals, teaching courses on UML, Java J2EE technology, object-oriented development, component based development, software architecture, and software process. He enjoys hacking in a variety of languages, including Java, .Net, Ruby, and PHP.