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Our Distinguished Panel

• Neil Bartlett• Alex Blewitt• Anish Karmarkar• Christer Larsson• Karl Pauls

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Neil Bartlett

• Author of OSGi in Practice (incomplete)

• Lead developer of bndtools (incomplete)

• First and only holder of “osgi” badge on StackOverflow (woohoo)

• Developer trying to apply OSGi in the Real World™

• Joined Paremus on 4th July 2011

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Alex Blewitt

• Bandlem Limited• Passionate supporter of both

OSGi and Eclipse• Java Developer, Author and

Tweeter

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Anish Karmarkar

• Oracle• OSGi Board Member• Standards Geek

• W3C, OASIS, WS-I, OSGi Alliance

• Distributed Systems research/dev/standards• ~20 years

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Christer Larsson

• CEO Makewave• VP EMEA OSGi Alliance• Knopflerfish OSGi• Been involved in OSGi since -98• Lives in Göteborg, Sweden

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Karl Pauls

• Fellow at Luminis• Member Apache Software Foundation• PMC: Felix, Sling, Incubator• PPMC: Ace, Clerezza, Celix• Project Owner PojoSR• Co-Author of „OSGi in Action“• karl.pauls@luminis.eu, karlpauls@gmail.com

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Highlights

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Neil Bartlett

• Tools, tools, tools!• With good tools, OSGi

development can be easier and more productive than ‘traditional’ Java.

• Repositories.• Education.

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Top Item

● Modular specs: Services-Module layer separation à la OSGi Lite

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Christer Larsson

• General• Tooling• Java 8

• Embedded Market• Resource Management• OSGi specs for other key standards / specifications

• E.g. TR-69 (almost done), ZigBee, Zwave, DLNA

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Karl Pauls

µServices and modularity

done right

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• Are we ready?

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• What are your ideas about the Modular Maturity Module?

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• What should we fix in the current OSGi specs?

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• If you had all the time in the world, what OSGi-related tool would you create?

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• How can we have OSGi’s discipline (good) without the pain (bad)?

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• We can‘t statically reason about bundles anymore (Manifest rewriting, Hooks) • Is this a problem, and if so,• How to deal with it (build systems,

deployment)?

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• What is your company doing to improve OSGi tooling?

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• What would be a good way to develop services collaboratively?

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• What good new services can you think of?

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• What do you think is the biggest pain- point for Enterprise/Embedded OSGi developers?

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• Do we need more community?

• If so, what do we need to do to engage a community?

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• How do we handle the different constituents in the OSGi:• residential• enterprise• others

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• What do we do about Jigsaw?

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• What would be the next leap be for OSGi?

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