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December 11, 2006
OSGi Alliance Gains Members, Advances Technology
Six new member companies have joined
the OSGi Alliance -- adding membership gains to the year's technical
achievements. The new member companies are Band XI International,
Cognos Inc., Compuware Corp., Luminis, Oki Electric Industry Co. and
Paremus Ltd.
"This has been a great year for the alliance,
posting technical and membership gains, which will stimulate greater
adoption of OSGi technology," said Stan Moyer, OSGi Alliance president
and an executive director in the applied research area of Telcordia
Technologies. "The alliance will continue to build on this momentum in
2007."
OSGi technology is a component integration platform with
a service-oriented architecture and lifecycle capabilities that enable
dynamic delivery of services. It is universal middleware. These
capabilities increase the value of a wide range of computers and
devices that use the Java platform.
The alliance published
Release 4 of the OSGi Service Platform (R4), added an enterprise expert
group, supported member companies' royalty-free patent pledge, and
released the R4 mobile specification, which was also accepted into the
Java Community Process (JCP) as Java Specification Request 232
(JSR232). Member companies IBM, Nokia, Gatespace Telematics, ProSyst
and Samsung pledged the royalty-free patents to OSGi developers, and
member companies Nokia and Motorola led the JSR232 submission and
approval in the JCP. The OSGi Alliance will continue its work with
members of the JCP on new specifications, including JSR 291, which
provides dynamic component support for the Java Standard Edition (SE)
platform.
The year's new members represent the diverse markets exploring and implementing OSGi technology.
"We've
increased our productivity and quality by using the OSGi programming
model since the R1 specification was released," said John Cunningham,
president of Band XI, a software and systems company. "Our OSGi
associate membership assures our customers that we are engaged with the
leading edge of new concepts and approaches in the software industry
and our use of the technology enables us to delivery quality -- fast --
to our customers."
There are two membership levels in the OSGi
Alliance, full member and adopter associate. Full members develop the
specifications, work within vertical expert groups and determine the
course of the alliance and its technology. The adopter associate member
was created this year at a lower membership fee, which gives more
companies early access to the universal middleware specifications and
even allows them to influence the development and adoption of these
specifications.
"We welcome these new innovative companies --
Band XI, Cognos, Compuware, Luminis, Oki Electric and Paremus -- to the
alliance and look forward to understanding their experiences and
perspectives as we continue to create specifications that address
business needs and invite adoption," Moyer said. "The OSGi Alliance
plans to host an automotive workshop, an OSGi developer conference in
conjunction with EclipseCon and user forum events in 2007 while members
continue to work on enhancements to industry accepted OSGi Service
Platform specifications."
For OSGi Alliance membership information, visit http://www.osgi.org/join.
For further information on the OSGi Developer Conference at EclipseCon, please visit www.eclipsecon.org/2007.
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