Chapter 1. OSGi and the enterprise—why now?
This chapter covers
- Why modularity is important, and how Java stacks up
- How OSGi enforces some simple rules to make Java better at modularity
- Why enterprise Java and OSGi traditionally don’t play well together
- How enterprise OSGi fixes this, and what the enterprise OSGi programming model looks like
Enterprise OSGi combines two of Java’s most enduringly popular programming models: enterprise Java and OSGi. Enterprise Java is a loosely defined set of libraries, APIs, and frameworks built on top of core Java that turn it into a powerful platform for distributed, transactional, interactive, and persistent applications. Enterprise Java has been hugely successful, but as the scale and complexity of ...
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