All the small things

After being involved in OSGi for a couple of years now, I finally had the chance to attend one of the community events. I have to admit, I was kinda nervous. I talked to so many people in the community for so long through the mailing list or personal mails, but actually never really met one of the folks there, so this was the moment to meet them in person. It was kind a weird, it felt a bit like finally meeting someone you got to know by one of the online flirt portals (not that I ever did something like that, but that’s how I would have imagined it ). You know the prejudice that Computer Scientists are all nerds and freaky to some extend, so this was really exciting. In short, I wasn’t disappointed – more the opposite! I haven’t met anyone I don’t like! Especially Richard Hall(Apache Felix lead), Jan Rellermeyer(ETH Zuerich), Michael Keith(Oracle) and Jo Ritter(ProSyst) seam not only to be really nice guys, but are also very good speakers. So if you have the chance to attend one of their talks, it is worth attending!

Besides the talks of the already mentioned speakers, there were several other talks I like. Namely the talk of Hans Bossenbroek for Luminis, Jon Bostrom (MobiNoir Consulting) and of course the Key Note of Peter Kriens. To go deeper and talk about every single talk would just be too much for this post, but all the talks either gave me some good insights or were just fun to watch. Well done! I am more technical oriented, so unfortunately the first day wasn’t as interesting for me as the last one was, but I think this is the tradeoff of such an event.

Socializing wise speaking, this conference was pretty good as well. I talked to many interesting people and gained a lot of insight of the community. You can’t imagine how many companies are using OSGi for years now, but are just not talking about it. It is really impressive to see how far they have gone and what they have achieved with OSGi. I really think in the near future, we can expect to see many new areas, where OSGi will become the defacto standard.

Concerning the talk I gave on Wednesday, I just can say that I am more than happy with the feedback. The room was so packed that some people even had to stand, which didn’t really helped me with my nervousness After my talk, I had the chance to talk to several people about security, their experiences and new ways how to tackle the problem I outlined during my presentation. I think, we are on a good way to come up with suitable solutions and I am looking forward to more interesting discussions. People are now starting to use the features OSGi is offering this will drive more, even better solutions, we will need for a broader adoption. Security is crucial and when we are finally starting to deploy multiple applications side by side in one OSGi container, we can’t longer assume that everyone is playing nice. We have to enforce security, that’s what we owe our customers/users. If you hadn’t time to talk to me during the conference or didn’t have the chance to attend the event and are also involved with similar problems I am more than happy to get in contact with you. Just drop me a mail. I think the more input we can get the better the solutions are, we can come up with. Of course, I’ll keep you posted how things develop along the way.

Till then – cheers,
Mirko

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