Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1. OSGi as a new platform for application development

1.1. What are development platforms and application frameworks?

1.1.1. Why use a development platform?

1.1.2. Enterprise platforms

1.2. The OSGi technology

1.2.1. The problem domain

1.2.2. The solution: a dynamic module system for Java

1.2.3. The Enterprise OSGi

1.3. Benefits of using the OSGi platform

1.3.1. OSGi manages the complexity of large systems

1.3.2. OSGi provides extensibility without eroding the system

1.3.3. OSGi is lightweight and customizable

1.3.4. OSGi allows for portability

1.4. Building blocks: the essence of ...

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