OSGi universal middleware

The buzz around OSGi is increasing. Not only is there an exciting OSGi track at EclipseCon this week, but more Java developers are slowly realising that OSGi isn't just a buzz-word - it can actually help solve their versioning and deployment issues (and a whole lot more).

Take Marc Loggeman's thoughts on how he's thinking of using OSGi as one tangible example.

How many technologies have a mature spec. and three open source implementations, with friendly licensing, to choose from? There is no barrier to entry other than getting up to speed with the fairly basic principles of creating and managing OSGi bundles.

I like the EclipseCon term for OSGi: "universal middleware".