OSGi Buzz

For some reason, in the last couple of weeks stories about OSGi and Equinox are popping up everywhere.

Two articles about OSGi were recently published:

• Dave Chappell & Khanderao Kand from Oracle just published an article called ‘Universal Middleware: What’s Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care‘ in SOA Magazine.
• Daniel Rubio published an article ‘An introduction of OSGI on the Server Side‘ on BEA’s Dev2Dev site. Which garnered some interesting responses on Javalobby.

In the blogsphere, Carlos Perez named OSGi as one of the Top Five Java Technologies to learn in 2008. Steve Mitchell does a nice blog post to introduce Equinox and OSGi

The SpringSource acquisition of Covalent created a number of blog post about OSGi and Equinox. Rod Johnson talk about the importance of Equinox and OSGi in his announcement of the acquisition. This seemsto have started a conversation about a mainstream OSGi application server and a good old fashion flame war on Serverside.

Finally, James Governor from Redmonk does a great job introducing the concept of a Stackless Stack and the rise of OSGi; which made me think about Eric Newcomer’s, chair of the OSGI Enterprise Work Group, blog posts about a new way of creating software.

Interesting times seem to be coming.
Of course, if you want to read more than just buzz, EclipseCon and the co-located OSGi DevCon are the place to see Equinox and OSGi in action.

UPDATE:

Seems like the guys at JBoss are doing interesting stuff with OSGi. Also two other analyst weigh-in; Alex Fletcher and another one picking up on the stackless stack concept.