What is OSGi? Microservices for the JVM
As someone who is being recently re-introduced to the Java platform, there are a lot of components and pieces to become familiar with. One of those pieces is OSGi, a service registry and deployment specification for Java apps. The OSGi specification describes a complete environment for running Java applications as components. Each component is a bundle that can be remotely installed, started, stopped, updated or uninstalled. In addition, OSGi provides a service registry that allows existing services to detect the addition or removal of other services and adapt accordingly....