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Kayode Odeyemi: Building an OSGi declarative service with Maven using Netbeans

Kayode Odeyemi has started what looks to be a very interesting series with his post Building an OSGi declarative service with Maven using Netbeans:

Welcome to my first topic on OSGi. This article is focused on using Netbeans to create an OSGi declarative service deployed on Glassfish which is of course built on Apache Felix - an OSGi framework implementation. OSGi defined: According to Craig Walls in the book "Modular Java - Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring", OSGi is a component framework specification that brings modularity to the Java platform. OSGi enables the creation of highly cohesive, loosely coupled modules that can be composed into larger applications. Each module can be individually developed, tested, deployed, updated and managed with minimal or no impact to the other modules. Hence, OSGi is a solution to Java's modular incapabilities...