1. JavaScript and OSGi Simon Kaegi, Orion Project Co-lead IBM Canada @skaegi

2. 2 What’s up with JavaScript …and why OSGi now?

3. 3 2005 – Open Source AJAX Libraries Firefox and Webkit 2008 – Google Chrome and … V8! WHATWG and HTML5 EcmaScript 5 (nee 3.1) 2009 – Node.js

4. 4 JavaScript 2013… Aging AJAX Frameworks Limited framework inter-op Cottage industry of micro libraries NPM Package Hell (Tools are still horrible) …victim of its own success

5. 5 JavaScript is going through growing pains similar to what Java experienced ten years ago. OSGi concepts and experiences are universal and relevant to JavaScript.

6. 6 “OSGI seems like overengineered Java stuff. I'm generally pretty skeptical of big frameworks that do everything for everyone. Usually they're a big pain.” -Isaac Schlueter (emphasis is mine)

7. 7 OSGi for JavaScript OSGi Focused, Lightweight, Open

8. Core JavaScript Problem Areas Modularity CommonJS “require” AMD (Browser) – require(stringID, callback) – async Node (Server) – require(stringID) – sync ES6 Module Loader http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:module_loaders Closer to class-loading than bundle loading

9. Core JavaScript Problem Areas Packages NPM Packages Closest thing to a bundle but more just project metadata OSGi bundles can be NPM Packages and vice-versa Useful work to be done right now!

10. Core JavaScript Problem Areas Asynchronous API Registered Callback Pattern (Node) doService(params, callback) Promises “A+” doService(params).then(onSuccess, onFailure) http://promises-aplus.github.com/promises-spec/ W3C DomFutures ES6 Generators / Co-routines http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators

11. Core JavaScript Problem Areas Extensibility and Services OpenAjax / OpenSocial Web Intents (W3C Webapps WG) No strong standards plays at the moment Go OSGi!

12. Orion and OSGi Micro Services Complete implementation of OSGi Services API Uses Promises for return types to decouple from async service implementation details Data only / No transferable functions PluginRegistry OSGi Lifecycle and Bundle State semantics used for Plugins OSGi Framework startup Preferences/Settings Implementation of Configuration Admin and Metatype for Plugin Settings and Schema

14. Orion Core Retrospective Orion core “strongly” OSGi influenced Very small, fast, stable and predictable Nearly all OSGi service specifications in the compendium are applicable in JavaScript. Direct Service API use has poor usability characteristics We need to find a simpler usage pattern to make OSGi Services more approachable to the JavaScript community.

15. Closing Thoughts JavaScript is an increasingly reasonable choice as a systems language Tons of innovation and tons of growing pains OSGi can really be of help here however We need to correct some invalid perceptions We need to make our APIs easier to use and adopt