What is OSGi? Simply put, OSGi is a standardized technology that allows developers to create the highly modular Java applications that are required for enterprise development. OSGi lets you install, start, stop, update, or uninstall components without taking down your entire system. The interest in OSGi based applications has exploded since major vendors like Sun,
What is OSGi? Simply put, OSGi is a standardized technology that allows developers to create the highly modular Java applications that are required for enterprise development. OSGi lets you install, start, stop, update, or uninstall components without taking down your entire system. The interest in OSGi based applications has exploded since major vendors like Sun, Spring, Oracle,
BEA, and IBM have gotten behind the standard.
OSGi in Action is a comprehensive guide to OSGi with two primary goals.
First, it provides a clear introduction to OSGi concepts with examples that are relevant both for architects and developers. Then, it explores numerous practical scenarios and techniques, answering questions like: How much of OSGi do you actually need? How do you embed OSGi inside other containers? What are the best practices for moving legacy systems to OSGi?
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
Richard S. Hall, a long-time committer to the Apache Felix project, works with Sun Microsystems as part of the GlassFish team.
Karl Pauls is also a Felix committer.
Stuart McCulloch is a Java developer with CodeDragons, a leader in OSGi solutions, and a Felix committer.
David Savage is a Java software engineer. He is co-author of the Newton Distributed OSGi framework and Sigil tooling project, and recently joined Apache Felix as a committer.
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