Knopflerfish

Infobox Software
name = Knopflerfish


caption = Demonstration of the Knopflerfish OSGi Desktop running
collapsible = yes
developer = Makewave
latest release version = 2.1.0
latest release date = release date|2008|06|08
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system = Cross-platform
programming language = Java
genre = OSGi Service Platform
license = BSD style license
website = http://www.knopflerfish.org/

Knopflerfish is a non-profit organization, developing OSGi related material. The project provides easy to use open source certified implementation of the OSGi R4 core framework specification cite web | work=OSGi Alliance Site | title=OSGi Alliance Certified Products | url=http://www.osgi.org/Markets/Certified | accessdate=2008-10-03] , as well as related build tools and applications. Knopflerfish is available under a BSD style license and current version of Knopflerfish is 2.1.0 released 8 June 2008.

History and Development

Knopflerfish (KF) is a spin-off project from Gatespace, which was one of the founding members of the OSGi Alliance. During a reorganization of Gatespace in the spring of 2003 it was decided to open source Gatespace's OSGi framework GDSP. The Knopflerfish organization was founded and the code from GDSP was donated to Knopflerfish. Erik Wistrand was elected president and he led the work in transforming the closed source GDSP into an open source Knopflerfish distribution. [http://www.makewave.com Makewave (formerly Gatespace Telematics)] is currently the primary maintainer and sponsor of the Knopflerfish project and has several developers assigned to develop and maintain the Knopflerfish OSGi distribution.

References

ee also

*OSGi Alliance
*Apache Felix
*Equinox OSGi
*Concierge OSGi

External links

* [http://www.knopflerfish.org Knopflerfish home page]
* [http://www.osgi.org The OSGi Alliance]
* [http://www.makewave.com Makewave (formerly Gatespace Telematics)]