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Chapter 26. Working with OSGi applications

This chapter provides information about WebSphere Application Server V8.5 OSGi

capabilities. We describe what an OSGi application is, the OSGi lifecycle, and how to

package, deploy and manage an OSGi application on a WebSphere Application Server.

This chapter includes the following topics:

 OSGi overview

 Enterprise OSGi

 Using the sample application

 Packaging OSGi applications

 Deploying OSGi applications

 Administrating OSGi applications

A detailed explanation of the OSGi framework is out of the scope of this publication. Refer to

the following sources for more information about that topic:

 The home page of the OSGi alliance:

http://www.osgi.org

 Eclipse Equinox OSGi implementation:

http://eclipse.org/equinox

 The WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Information Center:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphe

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