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Knopflerfish OSGi release is designed to be fully OSGi R3 compliant and is used in the R3 certified Ubiserv product from Gatespace Telematics

See changelog and download pages.

The Knopflerfish project

The Knopflerfish project is based on the Gatespace GDSP OSGi framework, which has been in development since 1999. Several of the core developers from Gatespace are active in the Knopflerfish project.

Gatespace was one of the original members of OSGi and now develops both OSGi application software, as well as telematics and broadband applications.


The Knopflerfish Desktop
The Knopflerfish project's goal is to develop and distribute easy to use open source code, build tools and applications, related to the OSGi framework. See charter for details.

The OSGi framework

OSGi, Open Service Gateway Initiative, specifies an industry standard Java application platform, allowing multiple applications, to securely run in a single JVM. These programs can share resources as data, functionality and threads.

Applications areas for OSGi ranges from use as a service platform on embedded devices, to plugin mechanisms for larger programs. The initial goal of OSGi was the embedded market, but other uses are certainly possible.

For more information on the OSGi consortium, see http://www.osgi.org