Intro to OSGi – The Microservices Kernel

If you are new to OSGi, or have heard about it or experienced (good or bad) a little of OSGi then this is the talk for you.

Peter Kriens, the OSGi Alliance Evangelist and Tim Ward, co-author of Enterprise OSGi in Action will provide a high level technical introduction to OSGi, covering the core concepts that make up this standard.

OSGi has been around since 1998 and was formerly JSR8. Today its one of the only Java standards that exist outside of the JCP and this talk will explore the original objectives of OSGi and how they have remained true while being extended to apply across many vertical markets including enterprise, embedded / IoT, etc.

Microservices and OSGi. From the outset OSGi promoted a ‘services-first’ approach, initially within the JVM, and in the last few years, across JVM’s with the Distributed OSGi specifications. The Microservices approach has been gaining industry traction over the last 12 months and Peter and Tim will explain how OSGi provides you with a standards-based solution to Microservices, how simple it is to take advantage of, and the benefits that you can achieve by adopting OSGi to realize it.

They will also highlight some of the common misconceptions and challenges that people have when starting out with OSGi, just so you have a full and frank understanding of the many benefits and some of the hurdles you may encounter as you start down the OSGi path. As they say there is no such thing as a free lunch, however it tastes mighty fine once you get there!