How OSGi Changed My Life

In the early 1980s I discovered OOP (object-oriented programming) and fell in love with it, head over heels. As usual, this kind of love meant convincing management to invest in this new technology, and most important of all, send me to cool conferences. So I pitched the technology to my manager. I sketched him the rosy future, how one day we would create applications from ready-made classes. We would get those classes from a repository, put them together, and voila, a new application would be born. Today we take objects more or less for granted, but if I am honest, the pitch I gave to my manager in 1985 never really materialized. The reuse of objects never achieved the levels foreseen by people such as Brad Cox with his software-IC model, and many others, including myself. Still, this Lego hypothesis remains a grail worth pursuing.