OSGi™ Users' Forum UK - Previous Meetings

7th April, 2009 - The Inaugural Meeting

Presentations Quick Links: Welcome & Intro, OSGi DevCon Review, Dev Tooling Summit

The meeting was held at Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, London, UK.

Sponsors: Many thanks to Merrill Lynch for providing a room for holding the meeting and Paremus for sponsoring post-meeting drinks. (If you are interested in sponsoring future events please ).

Agenda:

18hr00 - Registration

18hr15 - Welcome & Intro to the OSGi Users' Forum UK

18hr45 - OSGi DevCon Review (Neil Bartlett)

19hr15 - OSGi Development Tooling Summit Review (David Savage)

19hr45 - What do you want from the Forum? (Open Floor)

20hr15 - Meeting Close & Retire to the Pub

Speaker Bios:

Neil Bartlett is a Java developer and consultant specialising in Eclipse RCP, RAP and OSGi, in particular their use in large enterprise settings. Recently he has helped a number of financial institutions with their adoption of RCP and evangelises the use of the Eclipse/OSGi technology platform for both client and server-side development. Neil is also the author of "OSGi in Practice", an introductory book on OSGi which is available for free under a Creative Commons license. Neil's blog can be found at http://neilbartlett.name/blog/.

David Savage is a software engineer focused on building scalable, modular, dynamic networked software. Currently working for Paremus as a lead architect on the Newton, Sigil and Infiniflow product suites. Infiniflow is an OSGi based distributed runtime with self healing, scaling and monitoring capabilities. Newton is an open source framework upon which Infiniflow is based. Sigil is a set of development tools based on Eclipse and Ivy for developing and building OSGi applications. Davids blog can be found at http://chronological-thought.blogspot.com/.

Presentation Slides:

Welcome & Intro to the OSGi Users' Forum UK

OSGi DevCon Review (Neil Bartlett)

OSGi Development Tooling Summit Review (David Savage)