Speaker of OSGi DevCon
Chris Aniszczyk Red Hat
Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are modularity, blogging, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.
David Bosschaert Red Hat
David Bosschaert is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He has been developing software since 1983 and coding Java since 1997. At Red Hat he is currently working on the JBoss OSGi container. As a member of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group (EEG), David has been one of the drivers behind Distributed OSGi. Since summer 2009 he is also the co-chair of the EEG. You can reach him at david.bosschaert@gmail.com
Filippo Diotalevi
Filippo Diotalevi is an IT consultant specialised in the design and development of OSGi and Java Enterprise applications. He's author of two books on Java Enterprise development and committer of the Apache Felix project, one of the most successful open source OSGi implementations.
Christian Dupuis SpringSource
Christian is a Principal Software Engineer for SpringSource and is the leader of the Tools Team responsible for SpringSource development tools including SpringSource Tool Suite. Since 2004 Christian has led the well known Spring IDE open source project that provides development tools for the Spring Portfolio based on Eclipse.
Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource, Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
Christian has presented on a variety of enterprise Java topics at conferences such as JAX, W-JAX, SpringOne and The Spring Experience.
Sameera Jayasoma WSO2
Sameera Jayasoma is a Senior Software Engineer working in WSO2 Inc., the leading open source SOA company. He is the OSGi lead of WSO2 Carbon platform, the base framework for all WSO2 Java products. He is a graduate of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and holds a first class degree in B.Sc. Engineering, specializing in Computer Science and Engineering.
Ales Justin RedHat
Ales Justin is a serious Java aficionado with a wide-ranging background from energy management to customer service systems. He was the JBoss Microcontainer project lead and currently leads the Weld project, Red Hat's JSR-299/CDI reference implementation, while still contributing to ApplicationServer, Seam, Arquillian and many other JBoss projects. Ales holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana.
Mike Keith Oracle Corp.
Mike Keith was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups. He is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.
Kirk Knoernschild Burton Group
I’m a software developer currently working as an industry analyst at Burton Group. For more than 15 years, I’ve worked in the trenches on real software projects. Today, I spend my time researching and consulting on the technologies, trends, and market dynamics surrounding software development and architecture. I’m the author of the book, Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process. In the works is my second book which focuses on designing software systems with a modular architecture, an area in which I take an especially keen interest. I created the open source utility JarAnalyzer, which help teams manage the dependencies between JAR files. I regularly blog on topics related to software development, architecture, and especially modularity.
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OSGi in the Enterprise: Agility, Modularity, and Architecture's Paradox
2010-02-23 | 01:45 PM - 02:30 PM | Mancy
Peter Kriens aQute
Peter Kriens is the OSGi Director of Technology and CEO of aQute. He has worked many years as consultant for a large number of international companies, including Adobe, Intel, Ericsson, IBM, and others. In 2001 he was hired by the OSGi Alliance to run their specification process. He is the primary editor of all the specification releases since release 2 in May 2001. In 2005 he became one of the two OSGi Fellows. He lives in France travels the world to help the different OSGi expert groups to accomplish their tasks.
Toni Menzel Independent Consultant
Toni Menzel is a young, passionate, independent software developer from Hannover, Germany.
He is author of the OSGi Testing Framework Pax Exam and Committer to other Pax projects such as Pax Runner and Pax Swissbox. Toni is also committer to Apache ACE, a very efficient, standard compliant provisioning solution targeting OSGi platforms.
Toni's passionate about the Java Platform, Modularity & integrating Open Source Software into Organisations.
Commercial projects include airline, government, pharmacy and IT corporates.
Felix Meschberger Day Management AG
Felix Meschberger works as a senior developer for Day Management AG creating content management systems using open source and internal tools. Felix is a committer to the Apache Jackrabbit and Felix projects, where he maintains the Declarative Services specification implementation and developed the Metatype and Configuration Admin Service specification implementations. In September 2007 Felix contributed the Apache Sling to the Apache Incubator. Apache Sling is a web application framework built on top of the OSGi framework making extensive use of declarative services.
Glyn Normington SpringSource
Glyn Normington leads the Virgo project, serves on the OSGi Alliance's Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups, and works for SpringSource, a division of VMware, in Southampton England.
Andrew Osborne IBM
Ozzy joined IBM in 1997 and has worked on many software development projects mainly in IBM's WebSphere portfolio. His most recent interest is in working on the Apache Aries project, with particular focus on the Blueprint implementation. Ozzy's other interests include uses of digital video, webcasting and home theatre PCs. Ozzy holds a Bsc Hons in Computer Science from Canterbury University.
Ian Robinson IBM
Ian is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's WebSphere development organization. He works at the IBM Hursley software lab in the UK and is responsible for the strategy and development of OSGi technologies in WebSphere and the transaction processing capabilities of the WebSphere platform. As a member of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) Ian is co-author of the OSGi Transaction Service specification.
David Savage Paremus Ltd
David Savage is a software engineer working for Paremus as a lead architect on the Service Fabric product suite. The Paremus Service Fabric is an OSGi based distributed runtime with self healing, scaling and monitoring capabilities. He also contributes to open source as a committer on Apache Felix where he works primarily on the Sigil development tooling sub-project. Sigil is a set of development tools that provide a common IDE and headless build environment for OSGi applications. Recently he became a joint author on the book OSGi In Action from Manning Publications.
Doreen Seider German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Doreen Seider is the deputy head of the Department for Distributed Systems and Component Software of the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Simulation and Software Technology division. She received a master degree in computer sciences at the University of Leipzig. Her research fields include Grid Computing, OSGi, RCP and Web service technology. She is involved in the national Grid research project PartnerGrid and is leading the development of a software integration platform build upon Eclipse.
Shaun Smith Oracle
Shaun Smith is a product manager for Oracle TopLink and an active member of the Eclipse community. He's Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipeLink), a committer on the Eclipse EMFT Teneo, and co-lead of the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence Tools. Prior to joining the TopLink team at Oracle, Shaun was a consultant specializing in application architecture and an agile software development coach with a particular focus on developing enterprise applications using test-driven design. He’s a frequent conference presenter on the topic of object persistence.
