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Reputation: 6521

Modular OSGI Java Framework for Web?

I am looking for a powerfull up to date Java OSGI framework for WEB, which would allow

What I found was

Upvotes: 4

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Miguel Salinas
Miguel Salinas

Reputation: 39

You could test Konekti a Open Source OSGi business platform powered by Eclipse Virgo OSGi Container developed by Thingtrack.

  • Vaadin.
  • Spring.
  • JasperReport.
  • Quartz.
  • JBoss JBmp, drools.
  • Apache Camel, ActiveMQ.
  • And many more

http://www.konekti.org

Upvotes: 0

Paul Bakker
Paul Bakker

Reputation: 1059

I'm developing OSGi based web applications on a daily base. We have a slightly alternative approach which works very well:

  • RESTful web services implemented using OSGi services
  • Modular AngularJS based user interface, packaged in OSGi bundles

Although AngularJS is obviously not a Java web framework, it fits modern web development perfectly. If you are familiar with Java MVC web frameworks it's also easy to understand Angular.

The main question is how to modularize your code. At the backend we implement everything as OSGi services. RESTful webservices are implemented with JAX-RS using the Amdatu (amdatu.org). With Amdatu you can use JAX-RS in a way that fits OSGi well. Each RESTful resource and lower level services are packaged in separate bundles as well, so the backend is fully modular.

To modularize the UI itself we separate functional different parts of the application as different Angular applications. Each Angular application is packaged in separate bundles as well, using the Amdatu resource provider.

Upvotes: 2

Achim Nierbeck
Achim Nierbeck

Reputation: 5285

Take any std. framework of your choice and deploy it on top of Karaf (if you don't want to hassle with building your own OSGi runtime environment), or if you want to build everything up from scratch take also Pax-Web into account it also supports Servlet 3.0 and OSGi take a look at the home page of Pax-Web.

Upvotes: 3

Peter Kriens
Peter Kriens

Reputation: 15372

You should look at Apache (Felix) Sling or its commercial version CQ5 (formerly Day Software). It is fully based on OSGi.

Upvotes: 2

Frank Lee
Frank Lee

Reputation: 2748

I'm quite fond of Vaadin, it plays nice with OSGi, and it's quite active. It's a UI toolkit, based on Google GWT.

Mind you, you still have quite some decisions to make: You can use an OSGi framework 'straight up', like Felix or Equinox, but perhaps you'll be better off using an application server, like Apache Karaf or Eclipse Virgo.

Upvotes: 2

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