JBoss Application Server 7 is out - with OSGi support!

JBoss AS7 has been released today - an amazingly fast and lightweight Application Server with built-in OSGi support. Just deploy your OSGi bundles and go!

For more information see the main AS7 page: http://www.jboss.org/as7.html
Or have a look at the quickstarts page!

The OSGi support in AS7 implements the OSGi 4.2 core specification. Thomas Diesler has contributed most of the code, and I have implemented some bits and pieces in there too... Lets us know what you think or if you find an issue. The forums are here: http://community.jboss.org/en/jbossosgi and more details on the project can be found here: http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/osgi

Enterprise OSGi in JBoss AS7

As many of you know, I have been working on OSGi support in the JBoss Application Server for the past year now. My colleagues at JBoss/Red Hat and I have built an OSGi Framework from the ground up with as focus the best possible integration with the Application Server.

AS7 has been OSGi-enabled since its Alpha1 release and over the past few weeks Beta's have been pushed out on a bi-weekly basis. It's starting to look really good!

Next week at Red Hat Summit/JBoss World in Boston I'll be presenting and demoing the current state of things w.r.t. to Core OSGi, Enterprise OSGi and OSGi/AS integration in AS7. My session is on Friday at 11am: http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/jboss.html#38 - hope to see you there!