Everything about OSGi

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OSGiA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: An F-box protein OsFKF1 interacts with either OsGI or Hd1 and mediates the degradation of OsGI to control flowering time in riceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Wicket in actionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Toward an OSGi-Based Infrastructure for Context-Aware ApplicationsCited 199 times
5. Go sideways: Equinox (OSGi)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: OSGi Specification ImplementationsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Toward an OSGi-Based Infrastructure for Context-Aware Applications

  Tao Gu, Hung Keng Pung, Da Qing Zhang · 2004 · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 199 citations

• Service-Oriented Smart-Home Architecture Based on OSGi and Mobile-Agent Technology

  Chao-Lin Wu, Chun-Feng Liao, Li-Chen Fu · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C (Applications and Reviews) · 141 citations

• Device and service discovery in home networks with OSGi

  P. Dobrev, D. Famolari, C. Kurzke · 2002 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 98 citations

• Enabling smart spaces with OSGi

  Choonhwa Lee, D. Nordstedt, S. Helal · 2003 · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 95 citations

• The Eclipse 3.0 platform: Adopting OSGi technology

  O. Gruber, B. J. Hargrave, J. McAffer · 2005 · IBM Systems Journal · 69 citations

• OsGI controls flowering time by modulating rhythmic flowering time regulators preferentially under short day in rice

  Yang-Seok Lee, Gynheung An · 2015 · Journal of Plant Biology · 49 citations

• Challenges in building service-oriented applications for OSGi

  R.S. Hall, H. Cervantes · 2004 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 43 citations

• OsPhyA modulates rice flowering time mainly through OsGI under short days and Ghd7 under long days in the absence of phytochrome B

  Yang-Seok Lee, Jakyung Yi, Gynheung An · 2016 · Plant Molecular Biology · 41 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• An F-box protein OsFKF1 interacts with either OsGI or Hd1 and mediates the degradation of OsGI to control flowering time in rice

  Xinfeng Zhang, Yiqiong Huo, Yanjuan Hu · 2026 · Science Advances · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Wicket in actionMartijn Dashorst, Eelco Hillenius · 2008

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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