Extending OSGi bundle level resource monitoring for implementation portability

OSGi is a specification for modular application development in Java. In a modular application development environment, an application is composed of many standalone modules (components). Most of these components are reusable and could be used off the shelf. In such an environment, the application efficiency is determined by the constituent components efficiency. So it is important to track the resource consumption of each component. This paper analyses already proposed solutions for monitoring component level resource consumption. The major drawback of the already existing solutions is that they are dependent on the OSGi implementations based on which they are developed. This paper explains the reason for dependency on OSGi implementation and proposes a solution to avoid implementation dependency.