There are many forces that influence technological evolution. After a decade of building enterprise applications on the web, today’s enterprise application platform is slowly evolving to the next generation application platform. What exactly are the components of this next superplatform? Without question, as the next generation platform slowly evolves, a significant aspect will be the programming models and frameworks that team members use to develop and deploy enterprise applications.
The OSGi Service Platform is a dynamic component system for Java. Succinctly described as “SOA in a JVM”, OSGi provides extended capabilities on the Java platform that include the ability to deploy multiple versions of a component, discover new components dynamically, and deploy components without restarting the system.
