OPS4J stands for Open Participation Software for Java, and this community is trying to build a new, more open model for Open Source development, where not only the usage is Open and Free, but the Participation is Open as well. Removal of barriers, let more people in, have more fun and less politics. I have also seen Open Development as a term to describe this.
Think of it as Wiki brought to Coding. Wikipedia is of course the most outstanding example of open collaboration.
Pax is the umbrella project for all OSGi bundles and tools.
OSGi is a runtime platform that allows for a much higher degree of dynamicity than any other container architecture and is well suited for both client and server applications. Eclipse is the most visible OSGi eco-system on the market, housing many UI driven OSGi projects including a runtime framework. Knopflerfish.org as well as Apache Felix are other runtime platforms, with their respective standard services.
PAX intend to be complimentary to all these efforts and main focus are on good practices and technology integration. Feel free to start or suggest additional sub-projects.
Later posts will introduce the single pax projects, developers & users as well as future directions of the project.
Delighted to find a blog on OPS4J.
ReplyDeleteGreat work Toni!