London, UK, 22nd June 2009 - Paremus announced that two of its principal developers will be presenting at the inaugural OSGi™ DevCon Europe 2009 conference, in Zurich, Switzerland on 22nd June, 2009.

They will be introducing two new components of Paremus’ market leading OSGi Application Platform, the Paremus Service Fabric, demonstrating that it is continuing to innovate and maintain its technical leadership in the use of OSGi technology in the Application Runtime Platform industry.

Robert Dunne will introduce Nimble, the fast, lightweight, dependency resolution and provisioning engine that forms the core of the latest release of the Paremus Service Fabric. Greater modularization, as enabled by OSGi, leads to more complicated dependency graphs. Nimble's goal is to simplify the construction and management of these graphs so as the realize the full potential of highly modularity software.

Nimble is able to resolve the dependencies of both OSGi and non-OSGi artifacts, to install them, and to automatically clean up unused dependencies when they are no longer required. When you ask Nimble to install a component it will automatically identify and provision the required dependencies. For example, to deploy a Web Application, you simply ask Nimble to install its WAR file and Nimble will install all supporting infrastructure, e.g. a full Servlet engine stack. When you're finished with the application Nimble will tear down all this supporting infrastructure, as long as nothing else is using it, and complete the lifecycle. These capabilities remove the need for manual administrative intervention to set-up and remove correctly configured infrastructure every time you want to deploy or un-deploy a web application.

The talk synopsis and some of the key features that will be discussed and demonstrated can be found at here.

Derek Baum, will introduce and demonstrate the Paremus OSGi Shell (Posh) which is based on the new OSGi 4.2/RFC132 Command Line Interface. Prior to OSGi 4.2, there was no standard way to interact with an OSGi system using a command line based interface and commands had to be written for each framework and registered and invoked in a framework-specific manner. POSH uses the OSGi 4.2/RFC132 command-line interface to provide a powerful, bash-like OSGi shell that works with all OSGi frameworks (Equinox, Felix and Knopflerfish).

The talk synopsis can be found here and includes a list of some of the simple, yet powerful features that Posh offers to enhance developer productivity when working in an OSGi environment.