Javalobby - Comments for "A Simple OSGi Service"

I want to develop a web

alphamanic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:30:13 -0400

I want to develop a web service that will be deployed as a bundle in the OSGI framework. Do you have any example?

Cheers,

Let me be the critic here.As

jalexoid — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:52:44 -0400

Let me be the critic here.

As I see it OSGi has only 1 single killer feature - versioned bundles.Nothing else is undoable with Java EE at it's current state. And though I am not a spring fan... I do believe spring has autowire.Where you don't need to "register" and retrieve stuff.

I mean I see nothing wonderful about OSGi. Or maybe I am looking in the wrong places.
Component development? Been with us for years now. And component develeopment is NOT a system feature it's design feature. If noone defines components, OSGi will not help.

Hi Kirk,Thanks for your

guidolx — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:31:16 -0400

Hi Kirk,

Thanks for your article.

I never used OSGi but I think it is really interesting and could simplify the development of server side applications by encapsulating "features" in single bundles which are easy to deploy.

I imagine I could use a repository to deploy my OSGi bundles.

But what if I want to use some oss source library like say apache commons library ? Do I have to encapsulate the library as an OSGi bundle to be visible by the "business" bundles or can I simply put in the classpath or somewhere else where it is visible by the app server classloader?

I would like to manage some of the services as OSGi bundles (waiting for the java module system) but not every bit of java code I need to deploy. Is this possible ?

Thanks,

Guido