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OSGi

Java technology standard. There are several implementations available. Most notably: Eclipse Equinox and Apache Felix. Apache Karaf offers a nice wrapper and dependency management for Felix. In OSGi each Java library is or program is packages as an OSGi bundle.

First released2000
Developed byOSGi Alliance
Latest stable version8
Open-sourceNot defined
Used bySiemens Medical Solutions, ProSyst Software

Interesting facts

OSGi doesn't strictly enforce modularity, but OSGi does strongly encourage good modular development.

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