contents

preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the cover illustration

Part 1 Programming beyond Hello World

1 OSGi and the enterprise—why now?: 1.1 Java’s missing modularity; 1.2 OSGi to the rescue; 1.3 Programming with enterprise OSGi; 1.4 Summary
2 Developing a simple OSGi-based web application: 2.1 The development sandbox; 2.2 Writing an OSGi web application; 2.3 Decoupling with dependency injection; 2.4 Bridging JNDI and OSGi; 2.5 Summary
3 Persistence pays off: 3.1 Java and persistence; 3.2 Building a persistent application; 3.3 Transactions—the secret ingredient; 3.4 Summary
4.Packaging your enterprise OSGi applications: 4.1 The need for more than modules; 4.2 Enterprise OSGi subsystems; 4.3 The Enterprise Bundle Archive (EBA); 4.4 Alternative approaches; 4.5 Developing an enterprise OSGi application; 4.6 Summary

Part 2 Building better enterprise OSGi applications

5 Best practices for enterprise applications: 5.1 The benefits of sharing—and how to achieve them in your bundles; 5.2 Structuring for flexibility; 5.3 A better enterprise application architecture; 5.4 Summary
6 Building dynamic applications with OSGi services: 6.1 OSGi dynamism; 6.2 Using OSGi services; 6.3 Getting the most out of Blueprint; 6.4 Blueprint and service dynamism; 6.5 Summary
7 Provisioning and resolution: 7.1 Describing OSGi bundles; 7.2 Provisioning bundles; 7.3 Provisioning technologies; 7.4 Bundle repositories; 7.5 Summary
8 Tools for building and testing: 8.1 Manifest-first or code-first?; 8.2 Building OSGi applications; 8.3 Testing OSGi applications; 8.4 Collecting coverage data; 8.5 Summary
9 IDE development tools: 9.1 Eclipse-based OSGi development; 9.2 OSGi support in other IDEs; 9.3 Tools for the enterprise OSGi extensions; 9.4 Testing OSGi applications inside IDEs; 9.5 Summary

10 Hooking up remote systems with distributed OSGi: 10.1 The principles of remoting; 10.2 The Remote Services Specification; 10.3 Writing a remotable service; 10.4 Adding in your remote service using Apache CXF; 10.5 Using your remote application; 10.6 Using SCA for remoting; 10.7 Summary
11 Migration and integration: 11.1 Managing heterogeneous applications; 11.2 Migrating from Java EE; 11.3 Summary
12 Coping with the non-OSGi world: 12.1 Turning normal JARs into OSGi bundles; 12.2 Common problems for OSGi-unaware libraries; 12.3 An example library conversion—logging frameworks in OSGi; 12.4 Summary
13 Choosing a stack: 13.1 What’s in what server?; 13.2 Apache Karaf; 13.3 Apache Geronimo; 13.4 WebSphere Application Server; 13.5 Eclipse Virgo and Gemini; 13.6 GlassFish; 13.7 JBoss; 13.8 Paremus Nimble and Paremus Service Fabric; 13.9 Summary