Using management markup language for remote control of OSGi-based home server

This paper addresses building remote control of a home server based on a management markup language (MML). In this paper, we design XML-based MML as a communication language between managing and managed entities and implement a management server and a management agent for home server control in Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) infrastructure. The remote controllable entities include a bundle's life cycle, service's configuration, bundle permission, a start level of bundle, user management, user interface, log, and so on. The main feature of this implementation allows any 3rdparties to provide their management agent with OSG based home server and interoperate with other parties' solution by means of MML.