What's new in OSGi 4.2?

Question

OSGi 4.2 has just been released which updates the 4.1 specification with a few new RFCs. So, what\'s particularly new with OSGi 4.2, which frameworks support 4.2 already (or are

Answer 1

The early changes were highlighted here.

In particular, the RFC 119 - Distributed OSGi feature is interesting:

This solution defines a minimal level of feature/function for distributed OSGi processing, including service discovery and access to and from external environments.

That combined with EventAdmin (introduced in 41), will allow for easier implementations of OSGi-based distributed services (currently implemented with ECF)