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Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms

Submitted by Costin Leau on Fri, 2009-04-03 00:40

Introduction

The Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) Service Platforms project makes it easy to build Spring applications that run in an OSGi framework. A Spring application written in this way provides better separation of modules, the ability to dynamically add, remove, and update modules in a running system, the ability to deploy multiple versions of a module simultaneously (and have clients automatically bind to the appropriate one), and a dynamic service model. OSGi is a registered trademark of the OSGi Alliance. Project name is used pending approval from the OSGi Alliance.

Downloads

Spring Dynamic Modules users may also be interested in SpringSource dm Server, an open source, completely modular, OSGi-based Java application server (download). Its documentation is considered a supplement to Spring DM as it explains in detail, how OSGi can be used in various development and production scenarios.

Requirements

  • Java 1.4 (or greater)
  • OSGi R4 (or greater) platform
    (Spring DM is tested daily against Eclipse Equinox 3.2.x, Knopflerfish 2.2.x and Apache Felix 1.x)
  • Spring Framework 2.5.6 or greater

Current GA release - 1.2.0

Previous GA release - 1.1.3

Previous GA release - 1.0.3

Documentation

Books

Community Contributions

Additional Resources

OSGi introductions

Presentations

Samples

Support

For Developers

Snapshots

Source code repository (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Javadocs (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Reference Documentation trunk
Source code (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Submodules reports
Spring OSGi Core (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Spring OSGi Extender (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Spring OSGi JUnit support (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Spring OSGi Mock (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Spring OSGi Web (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)
Spring OSGi Web Extender (trunk | 1.2.x branch | 1.1.x branch)

 

Maven Repositories

Milestone Repository

Milestone releases (such as 1.2.0-m1 or 1.1.0-rc1) are deployed at:

<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
  <name>Springframework Maven Repository</name>
  <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>

Nightly Builds Repository

Nightly snapshot builds are provided for testing and development purposes only. They are built by a Bamboo process automatically using the latest snapshot from Subversion.

The snapshots are deployed to a Maven2 snapshot repository (browsable here). To use them, just add the following repository to the POM:

<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-snapshot</id>
  <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
  <name>Springframework Maven SNAPSHOT Repository</name>
  <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/snapshot</url>
</repository>

Individual dependencies can then by added like so:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.osgi</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-osgi-core</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-XXX-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

OSGified Artifacts Repository

OSGified artifacts (such as catalina jasper) are provided for development purposes at:

<repository>
  <id>spring-osgified-artifacts</id>
  <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
  <name>Springframework Maven OSGified Artifacts Repository</name>
  <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/osgi</url>
</repository>

Note that the repository is used internally by Spring DM and it is not supported.