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OSGi: An Overview of Its Impact on the Software Lifecycle

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:00 EDT

OSGi technology brings a number of much needed benefits to the Java enterprise application market, and is disruptive in that it impacts the software development, deployment, and management practices of many organizations. OSGi impacts deployment given the shared, modular nature of OSGi, meaning application code must be written differently to capitalize on the benefits of OSGi. Equally important, application management processes need to be adjusted, given the highly shared nature of OSGi modules across many applications. This article provides a high-level overview of OSGi, and the impact this framework is having on the software lifecycle.

How Rich Internet Apps Serve the Web Services SOA Community

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:45:00 EST

RIA software provides the best of both worlds for creating, deploying and managing SOA-enabled applications - the rich, highly interactive user experience of desktop applications with the low-cost application deployment and maintenance of Web applications.

How RIA - AJAX Technology Can Help Linux Seize the Enterprise Desktop

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:00:00 EST

Despite its success in the mid-tier, Linux has not been widely adopted on enterprise desktops - primarily because there is currently very little in the way of standards-based support for developing platform-neutral, enterprise-class GUI applications for Linux. Enterprises will not undertake the major effort required to move applications off of Windows unless they know those applications will be portable - a lesson learned the hard way in the move to Windows over the past decade.