OSGi Service Platform, Release 2

The Open Service Gateway Initiative was created in March 1999. From that early start of 15 member companies it has grown to more than 80, with meetings of over 150 people, held three times a year all over the world.. When they started this work the original intention was to create a specification to allow services to be remotely deployed onto home network gateways. This document is the product of the Core Platform Expert Group. The result of the expansion of the last few years of OSGi is that it now exists to create open specifications for the managed delivery of multiple services over wide-area networks to local networks and devices. Some of the early results of the expansion of focus can be found in this document.