[news.eclipse.technology.swordfish] Re: OSGI vs. JBI

[oliver.wolf@xxxxxxxxx (Oliver Wolf)]

> both JBI and OSGI offer a plattform for components, services, plugins, 
> system management,...
> From my point of view OSGI targets system services for (small) devices and 
> JBI cares about integration services for Applications, Business Components 
> - is that right? And is the scope of the projekt to combine these 
> possibilities? 

Marco,
you're right in that JBI 1.0 and OSGi are overlapping in some areas, 
especially regarding component lifecycle management. We expect the 
upcoming JBI 2.0 standard  to drop the JBI component model in favour of a 
proven concept such as OSGi. (Klaus from the Swordish team is actively 
participating in the JSR 312.)

One of the goals of Swordfish is to combine the capabilities of OSGi and 
JBI -- you could think of Swordfish as a JBI environment on top of an OSGi 
runtime (plus lots of other exciting stuff, of course :-)).

> Would it be possible to run swordfish on mobile plattforms?

Although JBI is primarily targetted towards enterprise environments, we 
try to keep the footprint of Swordfish small to facilitate deploymens on 
mobile devices. I'm not sure whether we'll be able to support very limited 
Java ME environments, but as the capabilities of mobile devices keep 
improving, I'm quite optimistic to see successful deployments of Swordfish 
on mobile devices one day.

Regards,
Oliver