Component Models in Java | Part 2

OSGi is the latest component model to join the bandwagon of component models, which provides a platform for component oriented development and assembly. OSGi framework is a standards based platform whose specifications are provided by the OSGi Alliance (www.osgi.org, formerly OSGi was referred as Open Services Gateway Initiative). OSGi Alliance is an industry backed nonprofit organization which was founded in March 1999. The OSGi specification has gone through many releases and the current major version in use is 4 and version 5 has been introduced recently. The OSGi defines a dynamic module system for Java. This comes as a rescue for Java’s modularity problems by giving better control to the code structure, manage the lifecycle of the code and a completely loosely coupled approach which is much needed for component oriented development.

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