research-article

A gentle introduction to OSGi

Authors:

Andre L.C. Tavares,

Marco Tulio ValenteAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 33, Issue 5

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402526

Published: 31 August 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is a framework that supports the implementation of component-based, service-oriented applications in Java. The framework man- ages the life-cycle of modules (called bundles in OSGi) and provides means to publish and search for services. Moreover, it supports the dynamic install and uninstall of bundles. Nowadays, OSGi is used in many application domains, including mobile phones, embedded devices, and application servers. In this paper, we provide a gentle introduction to the basic services provided by OSGi. The presentation is guided by a simple case study, involving the implementation of a Dictionary System.

References

[1]

Apache felix. http://felix.apache.org.

[2]

Concierge. http://concierge.sourceforge.net.

[3]

Equinox. http://www.eclipse.org/equinox.

[4]

Knopflerfish. http://www.knopflerfish.org.

[5]

Oscar. http://oscar.objectweb.org.

[6]

OSGi Alliance. http://www.osgi.org.

[7]

Spring OSGi. http://www.springframework.org/osgi/specification.

[8]

D. Box. Essential COM. Addison Wesley, 1997.

Digital Library

[9]

R.S. Hall and H. Cervantes. An OSGi implementation and experience report. In IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pages 394--399, 2004.

[10]

P. Kriens and B. Hargrave. Listeners Considered Harmful: The Whiteboard Pattern. Technical report, OSGi Alliance, 2004.

[11]

OSGi Alliance. OSGi Service Platform: The OSGi Alliance. IOS Press, 2003.

Digital Library

[12]

D.L. Parnas. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. Communications of the ACM, 15(12):1053--1058, 1972.

Digital Library

[13]

J.S. Rellermeyer and G. Alonso. Concierge: a service platform for resource-constrained devices. In EuroSys Conference, pages 245--258, 2007.

Digital Library

[14]

J.S. Rellermeyer, G. Alonso, and T. Roscoe. R-OSGi: Distributed applications through software modularization. In 8th International Middleware Conference, volume 4834 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1--20. Springer, 2007.

Digital Library

[15]

J. Siegel. CORBA 3 Fundamentals and Programming. John Wiley & Sons, 2nd edition, 2000.

Digital Library

[16]

Sun Microsystem. Enterprise Java Beans specification (version 3.0), Dec. 2005.

Cited By

Eymuller CHanke JPoeppel AWanninger CReif W(2023)RealCaPP: Real-Time Capable Plug & Produce Service Architecture for Distributed Robot Control2023 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)10.1109/IRC59093.2023.00063(352-355)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/IRC59093.2023.00063
Matevska JSoldin M(2022)Enabling IoT Connectivity and Interoperability by Using Automated GatewaysSoftware Architecture. ECSA 2022 Tracks and Workshops10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_21(300-317)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_21
Culmone RCacciagrano DAl-Turjman FMostarda L(2021)Share: A Design Pattern for Dynamic Composition of IoT ServicesForthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era10.1007/978-3-030-69431-9_11(144-156)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69431-9_11
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

A gentle introduction to OSGi
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Interoperability
    2. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

Recommendations

Hands-on OSGi tools in a day
CASCON '11: Proceedings of the 2011 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research

OSGi, which stands for "Open Services Gateway Initiative", is a service platform which facilitates the organization of code into reusable components called bundles. A bundle can be thought of as a Java archive (JAR) file with extra metadata describing ...
Osgi in Action: Creating Modular Applications in Java
OSGi in Depth

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 33, Issue 5

September 2008

68 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1402521

Issue’s Table of Contents

Copyright © 2008 Authors.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 31 August 2008

Published in SIGSOFT Volume 33, Issue 5

Check for updates

Qualifiers

Research-article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

35
Total Citations
View Citations
889
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)10
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 02 Oct 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Eymuller CHanke JPoeppel AWanninger CReif W(2023)RealCaPP: Real-Time Capable Plug & Produce Service Architecture for Distributed Robot Control2023 Seventh IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)10.1109/IRC59093.2023.00063(352-355)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/IRC59093.2023.00063
Matevska JSoldin M(2022)Enabling IoT Connectivity and Interoperability by Using Automated GatewaysSoftware Architecture. ECSA 2022 Tracks and Workshops10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_21(300-317)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-36889-9_21
Culmone RCacciagrano DAl-Turjman FMostarda L(2021)Share: A Design Pattern for Dynamic Composition of IoT ServicesForthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era10.1007/978-3-030-69431-9_11(144-156)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69431-9_11
Wang YXing CSun JZhang SXuanyuan SZhang L(2020)Solving the Dependency Conflict of Java Components: A Comparative Empirical Analysis2020 IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), IEEE Intl Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, (HPSC) and IEEE Intl Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS)10.1109/BigDataSecurity-HPSC-IDS49724.2020.00029(109-114)Online publication date: May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/BigDataSecurity-HPSC-IDS49724.2020.00029
Pan KWang Y(2020)Research on Dynamic Detection of Java Dependency Conflict2020 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computer Applications( AEECA)10.1109/AEECA49918.2020.9213605(711-714)Online publication date: Aug-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/AEECA49918.2020.9213605
Vargas Martínez CVogel-Heuser B(2018)Towards Industrial Intrusion Prevention Systems: A Concept and Implementation for Reactive ProtectionApplied Sciences10.3390/app81224608:12(2460)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.3390/app8122460
Schreiber AMisiak M(2018)Visualizing Software Architectures in Virtual Reality with an Island MetaphorVirtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Interaction, Navigation, Visualization, Embodiment, and Simulation10.1007/978-3-319-91581-4_13(168-182)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91581-4_13
Bieliauskas SSchreiber A(2017)A Conversational User Interface for Software Visualization2017 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT.2017.21(139-143)Online publication date: Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2017.21
Shatnawi ASeriai ASahraoui H(2017)Recovering software product line architecture of a family of object-oriented product variantsJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2016.07.039131:C(325-346)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2016.07.039
Shatnawi ASeriai ASahraoui HAlshara Z(2017)Reverse engineering reusable software components from object-oriented APIsJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2016.06.101131:C(442-460)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2016.06.101
Show More Cited By

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Issue’s Table of Contents