Chapter 2. Understanding OSGi technology

Perhaps you're wondering how a dedicated chapter on OSGi technology is appropriate to a Spring DM book? As we saw in chapter 1, Spring DM enables the use of the Spring Framework within an OSGi environment. Spring is really popular at the moment, and many Java developers know of its features: dependency injection, AOP, and its approach to structuring Java applications and simplifying development of enterprise Java applications. In contrast, the term "OSGi" is reasonably well known, but its features are much less so. Most developers and architects probably know ...

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