Re: Jini vs/and OSGi
"Johnson, Brad" <[email protected]>
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I know of one product that is a combination of Jini and OSGi. Paremus and the open source version Newton. Brad -----Original Message----- From: Adrian [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Jini vs/and OSGi Hello, Would anyone care to comment on where they see things heading with the aforementioned specifications? There seems to be significant functional overlap in current implementations. My impression is that OSGi is gaining a lot of steam (mostly due to the huge success of the Eclipse project, I suppose) and will probably be evolving to offer more and more of what Jini does. While Jini/Javaspaces has also been in the news recently, OSGi seems to be leading in developer/tool maker mindshare and there is a lot of 'real' work done in terms of advancing the spec. This article, written at the end of 2005, http://www.osgi.org/blog/2005/11/why-did-we-let-jini-out-of-osgi-r4.html doesn't doesn't make it sound very promising for Jini (viewed through the subjective eyes of the OSGi Alliance at least). I'm curious why there was no one (I'm thinking GigaSpaces or Dan C., for example) to beat the drums for Jini to be at least kept in the "Recommended" section of the OSGi spec. Would it make sense to think of a JavaSpace as an OSGi service instead of a Jini one when and if OSGi evolves to provide service lookup across a grid? Are the security/classloader issues mentioned in the article areas that Jini will address in the near term? The following presentation talks about using OSGi and Jini together, so not everyone seems to agree on where the future is headed for both specs. http://www.jini.org/wiki/10th_JCM_Sessions#Service_oriented_components_o n_the_grid_using_OSGi_and_Jini Enquiring minds want to know. Cheers, Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]