Dependable distributed OSGi environment
Miguel Matos, Antonio Augusto Soares de Sousa · 2008
As the vision of Service Oriented Computing matures the need for well defined architectures and protocols is essential. The SOC paradigm has several requirements to work properly: service composition and cooperation in a loosely coupled fashion, ability to adapt autonomously to environmental and business changes, proper integration between services, modularity and service dynamics. The OSGi[13] platform embodies key aspects of the SOC paradigm by defining a modular and dynamic architecture. However there is still room for improvement, namely on the creation of architectures and mechanisms to improve the dependability of the platform by strengthening key properties such as availability, reliability, integrity, safety and maintainability.