Towards a Formalization of the OSGi Component Framework
This work provides a formal foundation for OSGi-based systems, which is incremental as it builds on existing frameworks without introducing new paradigms.
The authors tackled the problem of formally modeling the OSGi component framework to describe system behavior and specify properties, with potential applications including runtime monitoring, component compatibility checking, and brokerage services.
We present a formalization of the OSGi component framework. Our formalization is intended to be used as a basis for describing behavior of OSGi based systems. Furthermore, we describe specification formalisms for describing properties of OSGi based systems. One application is its use for behavioral types. Potential uses comprise the derivation of runtime monitors, checking compatibility of component composition, discovering components using brokerage services and checking the compatibility of implementation artifacts towards a specification.