Chapter 2. An OSGi framework primer
This chapter covers
- Creating and sharing OSGi bundles
- Importing and exporting bundle packages
- Running bundles in an OSGi framework
- Defining and retrieving OSGi services
- Understanding the OSGi service registry
In this chapter you’ll expand your knowledge of the OSGi framework. I’ll describe two of the most important concepts related to OSGi: bundles and services. Bundles and services are the cornerstone of OSGi, and we’ll keep revisiting these two concepts throughout this book.
We’ll also cover the OSGi service registry and several less common, albeit still essential, APIs of the framework, such as the event listener interfaces.
As tradition dictates, to learn the basics, we’ll use an OSGi-powered ...
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