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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:42:30 +0100
From: Sascha Zelzer <s.zelzer@dkfz-heidelberg.de>
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Subject: Native OSGi solutions
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Hi Celix Team,

I followed your Apache incubation process with great interest and like 
the approach you are taking for bringing OSGi to embedded/native platforms.

I also found your EclipseCon abstract at 
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/sessions/?page=sessions&id=2281 and 
thought I will let you know that there are actually at least two other 
native approaches for implementing OSGi-like frameworks:

- SOF: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/library/SOF_.aspx

and

- CTK PluginFramework: 
http://www.commontk.org/index.php/Documentation/CTK_Plugin_Framework:_Introduction

I am not very familiar with SOF, but I am the main developer of the 
second one. We already have a couple of OSGi specs implemented 
(Configuration Admin, MetaType, Event Admin, Log Service,...) and Remote 
Services is on top of the todo list. I'm looking forward to your 
progress and maybe achieve some kind of interoperability between Celix 
and CTK in the future!

Best regards,

Sascha