OSGi-for-mere-mortals | Sample code for my OSGi for mere mortals

OSGi-for-mere-mortals is a Java library. OSGi-for-mere-mortals has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This is the code of my "OSGi for mere mortals" presentation at ApacheCon NA 2011, EU 2012 and EU 2014. It's a minimal standalone RESTful server built from scratch using OSGi Declarative Services, meant to demonstrate that OSGi is not only for superhuman guru programmers. This example demonstrates the complete lifecycle of an OSGi application, from starting the framework and installing the required bundles to running the app itself. It also demonstrates the svelteness of the OSGi framework and core services: the total size of the build-time dependencies (jar files) is around 3 megabytes and additional runtime baggage amounts to ten OSGi bundles (also jar files) representing about 2 megabytes more, including all runtime features like the OSGi web console, interactive OSGi shell, the OSGi configuration mechanism and front-end and the servlet engine. Startup time is around 300 msec on my laptop. The Maven build is also a useful example of how to create OSGi bundles in a simple way. The slides at should help you walk through the code.