Chapter 4. Packaging your enterprise OSGi applications

This chapter covers

  • The limitations of JARs and bundles for packaging large applications
  • How enterprise OSGi applications can be packaged as a single unit
  • Other solutions to the OSGi application packaging problem
  • How to package your sample application as a single deployable unit

Over the past couple of chapters you’ve put together an application consisting of a number of application bundles. As the number of bundles increased, it’s quickly become unmanageable when you try to deploy it. Even with only a simple web frontend and the persisted backend that you added in the last chapter, the application has seven bundles to remember to install. It’s time to look at how you can package ...

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