W-JAX 2008 OSGi Day
After the rather basic Power Workshop on Monday I attended the OSGi related sessions of the main conference yesterday. Though I was skeptical before - from my experience I often find conference speakers put too much focus on introductions and basic stuff at the beginning just to run short on time later - I was rather happy with the overall outcome. The first session "OSGi Today and Tomorrow" was held by Peter Kriens of OSGi alliance fame and provided some insight into the history and ideas of the platform which he co-invented. The "tomorrow" portion was rather short - about 5 minutes out of 75 - I would have liked some more information here. However as it was the first session of the main conference I did not expect to dive into much detail here. After that Matthias Lübken and Martin Lippert of akquinet it-agile GmbH talked about strategies and caveats when "porting" existing applications to use OSGi. I liked that talk even though I do not see why