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Distributed OSGi Service Platform through Apache CXF and Web Services

Authors:
Irina Astrova
Arne Koschel

Keywords: SGi Service Platform, Web services, Apache CXF, distribution, flight information system

Abstract:
The OSGi Service Platform supports rudimentary distribution through Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) specification, which facilitates interaction with UPnP-enabled consumer devices. The main goal of UPnP is to allow simple and seamless connection between devices and sharing of those devices. Although UPnP can be seen as a distributed system, the range of its use is very limited. Yet the way how OSGi services interact to each other is constrained to a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) where they run. This prevents to provide OSGi services in a distributed manner. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to add distribution capability to OSGi, without having to change OSGi itself. The contribution of this paper is twofold: (1) it supplies implementation details to show how OSGi can be extended with distribution; and (2) it implements a flight information system to show how this extension can be applied to business applications.

Pages: 19 to 25

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4421

ISBN: 978-1-61208-248-6

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013