Community
In 2003, Eclipse selected OSGi as the underlying runtime for the plug-in architecture used for the Eclipse Rich Client Platform and the IDE platform. Eclipse itself includes sophisticated tooling for developing OSGi bundles and there are a number of other Eclipse plug-ins aimed at supporting OSGi behaviour (e.g., both ProSyst and Knopflerfish have Eclipse plug-ins available specifically for OSGi developers).
There is a vibrant free software community revolving around the OSGi specification. Some widely used open source implementations are Equinox OSGi, Apache Felix and Knopflerfish OSGi. Regarding tooling, build system support and testing, the OPS4J Pax projects provide a lot of useful components and expertise.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure—but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)