Ian Robinson, IBM

Ian Robinson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's WebSphere development organization, based at the IBM Hursley Software Lab in the UK. Ian has 20 years experience working in enterprise middleware and software standards, responsible for the transaction processing capabilities of the WebSphere platform and strategy for emerging server-side application programming models. One of the areas Ian is currently focused on is how technologies like OSGi can help reduce complexity in the development and operational management of large suites of applications. He is an active member of the OSGi Alliance, he helped initiate the open source Apache Aries project to implement enterprise OSGi componentry, and leads the integration of these technologies with IBM's WebSphere platform.

Presentation: "OSGi - The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw"

Track: Future of Java

Time: Wednesday 15:35 - 16:35

Location: Fleming Room, Third Floor

Abstract:

There are a variety of tools, patterns and best practices that encourage and enable the development of modular and maintainable software. And there are very capable Java execution environments for hosting increasingly complex applications. The OSGi framework, which underpins many of them, is the most widely used Java modularity technology and will soon be entering its teenage years. What sort of teenager will it become? Over the last few year OSGi has started to come out of the infrastructure and to become more attractive to applications. But would you want your parents to meet it? And what's going on under the table with the JDK?