SpringSource and Oracle back ‘Project Gemini,’ a boost for OSGi

This week, SpringSource and Oracle were named as the first two companies to provide committers to Project Gemini (or “Enterprise Modules”), an Eclipse runtime project meant to bring together a number of modules for enterprise application development. The project was born from the efforts of the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group.

Gemini will, “provide a home for sub-projects that integrate existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms, and/or that implement enterprise specifications on module-based platforms,” according to the proposal on Eclipse.org.

SpringSource says it will contribute two initial projects:

• Gemini Web Container – the OSGi Web Container reference implementation, which is currently housed in the SpringSource git repository.
• Gemini Blueprint Service – a spring programming model for OSGi based on Spring Dynamic Modules.