Re: Jini vs/and OSGi
Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
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Adrian wrote: > Dennis Reedy <dennis.reedy <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi Adrian, >> >> IMHO I see the two technologies as not opposed, but as working >> together. OSGi as a micro-kernel architecture, Jini as technology >> that makes Java services (components) accessible through the network. >> OSGi does a really nice job at the JVM level (who knows whats going >> to happen with JMS), Jini excels on the network (its primary domain). >> >> Enabling Jini technology based services to be activated as OSG >> bundles may be the combination going forward. >> >> My very quick $0.02 >> >> Cheers >> >> Dennis >> > > > That's what I would've thought, but the action of removing Jini as a recommended > spec to track/follow/integrate with, by the OSGi alliance seems to indicate > otherwise. Recall that OSGi's initial focus was embedded devices (which could be > networked) and being able to dynamically manage services on these. Sounds > familiar... > Sounds familiar but isn't the same. The services as described in OSGi are services that run together within the same JVM on a single "thing" (device, real computer, whatever). > This, along with the imminent release (around May) of OSGi support from the > Spring framework (http://www.springframework.org/osgi - one of the most popular > and widely used open source server-side (primarily) do-all glue frameworks), > points to a clear move, IMO, to bring OSGi to the enterprise space. > > What horse to bet on? > > 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]