Chapter 8. Web Applications Using Spring and OSGi

Deploying an OSGi bundle to be enabled on the Web can be a little more demanding than deploying a standard OSGi bundle containing business services, because it has to be managed by an underlying OSGi'fied web container. Throughout the book you've explored many variations to do just this, starting off with a stand-alone OSGi web bundle in Chapter 1 and continuing on with an examination of the use of the standard Web Archive (WAR) format employed in Java web applications in Chapter 2.

In Chapter 3, you got your first glimpse of how Spring-DM tackles the issue of deploying web-bound bundles containing servlets and JSP files, through a special hybrid-WAR called a shared services WAR that takes advantage ...

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