How to create a simple OSGi Web Application using Maven

In this tutorial we will take a look at the development of a simple OSGi Web Application and what tools can save us some time. The Maven Bundle Plugin makes our life much easier here as does the OSGi Bundle Repository that offers some nice bundles – in our case the servlet API and an embedded Jetty web server. So lets develop some bundles .. Prerequisites You are going to need a JDK (>=5), Maven2, the Apache Felix OSGi implementation and and text editor/http://eclipse.org/[IDE] of your choice. ...

July 25, 2010 · 8 min · 1505 words · Micha Kops