Welcome to Apache Felix
News
- File Install 1.2.0 is now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (June 29, 2009)
- HTTP Service Jetty 1.0.1 maintenance release is now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (June 29, 2009)
- The Framework 1.8.1, and Main 1.8.1 releases are now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (June 25, 2009)
- The Maven SCR Plugin 1.2.0 release is now available from the Maven repository. (May 25, 2009)
- The Felix UPnP Extra 0.4.0 and Felix UPnP Tester 0.4.0 releases are now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository (May 21, 2009)
- The Felix Web Console 1.2.10 release is now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (May 15, 2009)
- The Framework 1.8.0, and Main 1.8.0 releases are now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (Mai 14, 2009)
- The junit4osgi 1.0.0 release is now available in the downloads section and from the Maven repository. (May 13, 2009)
What is Felix?
Felix is a community effort to implement the OSGi R4 Service Platform
, which includes the OSGi framework and standard services, as well as providing and supporting other interesting OSGi-related technologies. The ultimate goal is to provide a completely compliant implementation of the OSGi framework and standard services and to support a community around this technology. Felix currently implements a large portion of the OSGi release 4 specification, but additional work is necessary for full compliance. Despite this fact, the OSGi framework functionality provided by Felix is very stable.
OSGi technology originally targeted embedded devices and home services gateways, but it is ideally suited for any project that is interested in principles of modularity, component-oriented, and/or service-orientation. OSGi technology combines aspects of these aforementioned principles to define a dynamic service deployment framework that is amenable to remote management. As an example of a simple use case, Felix can be easily embedded into other projects and used as a plugin or dynamic extension mechanism; it serves this purpose much better than other systems that are used for similar purposes, such as Java Management Extensions (JMX).
What is OSGi?
The term OSGi generally refers to either the OSGi Alliance organization or the OSGi Service Platform technology. The OSGi Alliance is an independent corporation whose purpose is to define a specification to deliver services over wide-area networks to local-area networks and devices. The OSGi Alliance has numerous corporate and individual participants who are ultimately responsible for defining the features of the OSGi Service Platform. The OSGi Alliance releases a detailed specification describing the features and capabilities of its OSGi Service Platform, which can then be freely implemented by anyone. For more more information on OSGi or to retrieve the specification, refer to the OSGi Alliance web site.