OSGi(TM) Alliance Gains Momentum with New Members, Technical Achievements.Members Drive the Alliance toward Greater Adoption of Universal Middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a SAN RAMON San Ramon (Spanish for "Saint Raymond") may refer to one of the following places:
"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 Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is a telecommunications research and development (R&D) company based in the United States and created on January 1 1984 as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up . "The alliance will continue to build on this momentum in 2007." OSGi technology is a component integration platform with a service-oriented architecture See SOA. and lifecycle capabilities that enable dynamic delivery of services. It is universal middleware. These capabilities greatly increase the value of a wide range of computers and devices that use the Java[TM] platform. Technically, 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 Sun's system for allowing third parties to submit requests for new features to Java. JCP is a formal process that must be adhered to, and fees are involved. In 1999, Sun submitted Java to the ECMA standards body, but withdrew its J2SE specification later in the year. (JCP See Java Community Process. JCP - Java Community Process ) as Java Specification Request 232 (JSR JSR Java Specification Request JSR J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Virginia) JSR Journal of Sedimentary Research JSR Jump to Subroutine (6502 processor instruction) 232). Member companies IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , 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 John Cunningham or Jack Cunningham may refer to:
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. ABOUT THE OSGI ALLIANCE The OSGi Alliance is a worldwide consortium of technology innovators that advances a proven and mature process to assure interoperability of applications and services based on its component integration platform. The alliance provides specifications, reference implementations, test suites and certification to foster a valuable cross-industry ecosystem. OSGi technology is delivered in many Fortune Global 100 company products and services. Member companies collaborate within an egalitarian e·gal·i·tar·i·an adj. Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people. , equitable and transparent environment and promote adoption of OSGi technology through business benefits, user experiences and forums. For more information on the non-profit technology corporation, visit http://www.osgi.org. OSGi is a trademark of the OSGi Alliance in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , other countries, or both. Java and all Java based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc., in the United States, other countries, or both. |
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