BND Tools 7.0 Release Candidate 1 is available

We are happy to announce the BND Tools 7.0.0 Release Candidate, which can now be downloaded here. Thanks to the support by members of the OSGi Working Group the code base has been ported to Java 17 and the release features the support of multi release JARs (among many other changes). For the changelog and release notes, please check out Github. You can also contribute via the issue tracker or discuss the latest release in the bnd forums.

OSGi Tooling Workshop Oct 23 - Ludwigsburg

The German OSGi Users' Forum is holding an OSGi Tooling Workshop on Monday, October 23, 2017 in Ludwigsburg starting at 10.30 am.

Its free to attend and you will hear the latest news about development tooling for OSGi. This will include IntelliJ, Eclipse, Bndtools, Gradle, Maven, Eclipse RCP and PDE.

So anyone attending the OSGi Community Event and EclipseCon Europe should be very interested in this as its being held at the same location in the Forum am Sclosspark.

The full schedule and presenters can be found on the German OSGi Users' Forum event page HERE.

To register and reserve you place please send an email to germany-info@osgiusers.org

OSGi Community Event 2017 CFP

"cirkus corker announcer” by

Fredrik Rubensson

is licensed under CC BY_SA 2.0.

The OSGi Community Event Program Committee is pleased to announce that the Call For Papers (CFP) for the 2017 event is NOW OPEN.

We are looking for submissions from anyone who has something to share about OSGi technology, the OSGi ecosystem or OSGi community.  All successful submissions receive a free speaker all access pass to the OSGi Community Event and EclipseCon Europe.

Popular topics often include use cases and case studies of using OSGi, OSGi open source projects or commercial OSGi products where you have some experience to share. Presentations on tools and frameworks that can improve the developer experience are also well received.  We are also looking for a 3-hour tutorial, so if you have a project or some examples on an OSGi specification where the audience can participate with you then we would welcome your submissions.

Click here to Submit a talk

OSGi is used in many different environments and markets and we are interested in hearing from your use in any of them, be it enterprise, telecommunications, transport, retail, IoT, Industry 4.0, M2M, Cloud, or Smart Home, to name just a few.

It's always great to get submissions from new members to the community and/or new speakers so please don't be shy and get your submissions in.  Whether what you have to share is small or large, state-of-the-art or traditional, business critical or a pet project, we want to hear from you.

Your submission should be either for a 35-minute talk or a 3-hour tutorial. 

We are sharing the submission system with EclipseCon Europe so please be sure to select OSGi as the track when making your submission to be sure the OSGi Program Committee will get to review your proposal.

The CFP is open until July 17, however the Early Bird submission deadline is June 30.

As an added incentive to get your submissions in for the Early Bird deadline we will award a €50 Amazon Voucher to the talk selected for the OSGi Early Bird pick. Be sure to submit by June 30 to be in with a chance of winning this.

The OSGi Community Event 2017 will be taking place between October 24 to 26.  Once again this year the event is being held at the Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, Germany.  As always there will be plenty of talks, BOFs, social events, beer, wine and food so make sure you have the dates in diary and start planning your travel and accommodation early.

If you have any questions please contact us by email.

New OSGi Tool Chain Documentation

People sometimes say that OSGi is hard to use because tooling support is lacking. Well, there are actually quite a lot of OSGi-related tools out there, but many of them address a specific area. They often work together with other tools to address a larger context. A modular approach to tooling, if you like... One of the issues with this approach was however that it could be hard to find out how these tools are working together to address a real life scenario. An example scenario would be how to set up an entire development environment that includes a headless build, and IDE with debugging facilities and a testing environment. Documentation describing how to do all this using a combination of existing tools was not easily available.

Over the past months a number of people have worked together on creating a set of documentation pages that describe various OSGi toolchains: how a number of tools can be combined to create an end-to-end solution. For example, it describes how Bndtools can be used with Ant and Eclipse to create a comprehensive development setup. But there are more options. Not everyone uses Bndtools, other people might use Tycho with Eclipse and Maven. This is also documented. As is how to use Maven with Bnd, Eclipse and Pax-Exam. 

Additionally there is a page describing how to set up a Scala build environment for OSGi using SBT.

All the details of how to get going are described on a new set of pages focusing on documenting OSGi tool chains on the OSGi wiki. You can find them here: http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/ToolChains

The pages that are there now are just a starting point. They should get you going with a number of OSGi tooling technologies. As most of the pages use a similar example it is also possible to compare the various approaches. However, there is always room for improvement. As this is an open environment feel free to contribute. If you are using a different toolset, document it! Or if you have anything to improve the descriptions add it in!

http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/ToolChains