osgi on n800

Spotted a post yesterday on running OSGi on maemo. Up and running with a servlet container inside OSGi (the Eclipse Equinox implementation) on my Nokia N800.

Missing the bluetooth GPS device to try the Google GPS Mashup on OSGi

After setting up an OSGi console running over ssh to my n800, I tried directly installing bundles from remote http sites (if you've only ever used Eclipse and it's update manager you're probably not aware of the framework's ability to directly install and uninstall bundles from any http site at the console command line).

However, it's a long way from rubygems or cpan - there are a few repositories around, but no more than web sites hosting files. It's hit and miss finding a bundle that meets the java execution environment of Java CDC, or doesn't have the wrong sort of native code, and although the bundles themselves know their dependencies, there's nothing to connect those logical dependencies with their physical resolution. OSGi RFC-0112 is supposed to solve that problem.