OSGi Enablement for Tuscany Runtime

 ^OSGi Enablement for Tuscany.ppt

Movtivations to enable OSGi for Tuscany:

• Provide modularity for Tuscany to formalize the SPI contracts and enforce the package dependencies across modules
• Enable Tuscany to work with OSGi environment such as JEE application servers, Eclipse RCP or Spring DM (see http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/11/osgi-in-the-enterprise^{Image Removed} )
• Provide versioning and isolation so that Tuscany extensions can depend on different versions of the same library
• Provide dynamic lifecycle for extensions, install/uninstall/start/stop a module

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• OSGi console
  • -Dosgi.console=<port #>
• Eclipse PDE state view
• Traps
  • Split Packages
  • System packages
  • Version mismatch

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