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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:57:14 +0200
From: francesco furfari <francesco.furfari@isti.cnr.it>
Subject: UPnP --> Felix and OSGi vertical solutions
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>> We would like to maintain the code in Felix community as committers if you accept us, and even to share our ideas
>> and development projects with you.  
> 
> 
> This is what Felix is for re: sharing of ideas.  I look forward to working with you.  Let's get more feedback from the community.

Maybe it's premature talking about the different application domains in
which fits OSGi platform , I understand that a OSGi R4 compliant
implementation is the first target of Felix, nevertheless I would like
to know how (if) do you think to manage the mobile, automotive,
residential gateway, and home automation field for which several
sub-projects might be opened.
Do you intend concentrate only on using Felix as application container
for the suite of apache softwares? if the other option is reasonable
too, is the Apache community able to involve industrial partners to
support the development in those areas (i.e mobile)  ... sorry for the
ingenuous question

ff


Alex Karasulu wrote:
> Francesco Furfari wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>> I'm pleased to announce that Domoware team intend to donate his work 
>> on OSGi-UPnP integration to Felix.
> 
> 
> This is excellent Francesco: we look forward to such contributions.  As 
> you may already know we intend to grow this community to include 
> services besides just the core container.
> 
>> The Domoware team is composed by Stefano Lenzi and Matteo Demuru two 
>> very valuable students of the Computer Science course at Pisa 
>> University and me a senior engineering working at ISTI-CNR. Our work 
>> is currently hosted by the  ISTI institute but our contributions are 
>> on a voluntary basis only, you can visit it at 
>> http://domoware.isti.cnr.it
>> The base driver is OSGi R3 compliant, the code has recently optimized 
>> to improve the memory footprint but we haven't
>> never started a software engineering revision.
> 
> 
> This is a very impressive application of OSGi re: the control and 
> programming of home appliances.  I'm already thinking of the 
> possibilities.  I have to read up more but I'd love to hear comments 
> from others with more OSGi knowledge and experience than I.  With 3 
> active committers working on Domoware it's more than just a code 
> contribution and this is much more preferable since we're about 
> community first.
> 
>> We would like to maintain the code in Felix community as committers if 
>> you accept us, and even to share our ideas
>> and development projects with you.  
> 
> 
> This is what Felix is for re: sharing of ideas.  I look forward to 
> working with you.  Let's get more feedback from the community.  I think 
> Domoware and it's committers would make an excellent addition to Felix.
> 
>> We are very new to this large and  collaborative community, I'm sure 
>> we'll try our best  to contribute to Felix success.
> 
> 
> We'll work together to make you comfortable with the dynamics of a large 
> community.  If you have any questions and/or concerns feel free to raise 
> them.  I'm sure several people here would help make the transition as 
> smooth as possible once the decision is made to accept your generous 
> contribution.
> 
>> We look forward to receiving your opinions
> 
> 
> Thank you Francesco ... hopefully we'll get others to chime in so we can 
> act decisively.
> Alex
> 
>