SOA governance with OSGi
October 20th, 2008 | Published in soa
Matt Raible just wrote a post describing how LinkedIn is using OSGi to build it’s next generation SOA architecture. It’s nice to see that LinkedIn is moving into this direction as i just had the same idea today.
Gert vanthienen explained to me how to add a maven repository in ServiceMix, so you can easily install new features and their dependencies. Nice, it’s like having apt-get install for application servers, enabling easy installation of application server features and applications. Makes life a lot easier when you have to maintain a large number of application servers.
And then today Mike van Alst discussed some of the new features in the Oracle SOA suite, especially regarding SOA governance. A important part of SOA governance is being able to discover existing services, and being able to easily install these services.
Looks like OSGi bundle repositories might solve an important aspect of SOA governance.
