Chapter 1. Instant OSGi Starter

Welcome to the Instant OSGi Starter. This book has been created especially to provide you with all the information that you need to set up OSGi. You will learn the basics, get started with building your first OSGi application, and discover some tips and tricks for using OSGi.

This book contains the following sections:

So, what is OSGi? – Find out what you can do with it, and what it can bring to your development infrastructure. OSGi is generally seen as being very complex, with many moving parts; our goal is to reduce this.

Installation – OSGi brings many runtime benefits, but before we get there we'll use several tools and technologies to build modular Java applications. BND tool, Apache Maven, Apache Karaf, Eclipse ...

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