Part 3. Integrating enterprise OSGi with everything else

Now that we’ve reached part III of our book, it’s time to start looking at how OSGi relates to the environment you already have. Our main focus so far has been developing new applications from scratch. Although we’re sure you’d agree that this is a fun approach, it isn’t realistic to assume that you’ll always be starting with a clean slate. Java has a rich and successful history, and this means that there will be a lot of existing code that you want to use.

Despite our description of the enterprise as a large distributed system in section 1.1.2, your applications so far have been firmly tied to a single virtual machine. You’ll remedy this in chapter 10, where we look at how to extend ...

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