About this Book

The OSGi specifications are well written and elaborate, so if you need to know details about OSGi technology, the specifications are the place to look. If you do, you’ll discover that they were written for someone who is going to implement the specifications, not use them. This book started out as an attempt to remedy this situation by creating a user-oriented companion guide for the specifications. Our goal wasn’t to create an OSGi cookbook but to thoroughly describe the important aspects of OSGi and show how to use them. Our main idea was to more simply explain the OSGi specifications by ignoring the implementation details and including additional usage information.

To that end, we’ve tried to limit ourselves to discussing ...

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