Location-Transparent Integration of Distributed OSGi Frameworks and Web Services

The OSGi Alliance defines an open, modular, and scalable service delivery platform. The DPWS specification standardizes the process of consuming and exposing Web Services in a lightweight footprint. In our work, we provide a solution for the mutual integration of OSGi and DPWS. The approach adopts the mechanisms of distributed object systems. It employs OSGi-based service proxies and service skeletons.