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Name

Karl Pauls & Angelo van der Sijpt

Title

Software Chief OSGi dude, software engineer

Organization

Akquinet, Luminis

E-mail

karl pauls at gmail dot com, angelo dot van der sijpt at luminis dot nl

Title

Distributing, managing and monitoring a large number of devices

Overview

OSGi technology is becoming the preferred approach for creating highly modular and dynamically extensible applications. With framework implementations like Apache Felix readily available, there is no better time to start moving to OSGi technology. However, doing so requires to master the assembly, provisioning, and discovery of the components that make-up your system. Apache ACE, an Apache Incubator project, is a software distribution framework that allows to centrally manage and distribute software components, configuration data, and other artifacts to target systems.
In this talk, we focus on how you can manage large numbers of OSGi based software deployments and talk about the impact of remote management and software evolution on your architecture and practices. You'll learn how to tame the exploding complexity in the face of many embedded devices, lots of software and ever-changing featuresets in the context of a real world use-case: We'll present the case of a company which uses OSGi as the foundation for their modular device software, and the challenges they faced during their journey from small-scale pilot deployments all the way to large commercial roll-outs.

Bio

Karl is the head of the OSGi competence center at akquinet. During the day he is busy leading OSGi project and at night he is a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). With more than six years experience, a long time OSGi enthusiast, he is a committer and member of the PMC of Apache Felix . Recently, he is co-authoring the "OSGi in Action" book.
Angelo is a software engineer and consultant, specializing in Java, OSGi and agile development methods. Angelo has been involved in OSGi based product development by coaching, training and co-development. He has coached several teams and their surroundings in adopting Scrum, both in software-only and product development situations.
Angelo is an Apache committer on the Apache ACE project. He has spoken at conferences such as Devoxx and Øredev, and frequents hands-on sessions such as those of Devnology and Agile Holland.