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Managing applications

This chapter covers

Discovering and deploying bundles using the OSGi
Bundle Repository

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Deploying applications using Deployment Admin

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Controlling bundle activation order using start levels

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In the last chapter, we focused on issues relating to the management of individual
bundles, such as how to version them, manage their configuration data, and con-
trol their activation policies. Now, we'll move beyond managing individual bundles
to issues related to managing OSG i-based applications composed of many bundles.
As we've mentioned previously, in OSG i-based applications the deployed set of bun-
dles is your application's configuration. This is a powerful aspect of the OSG i
approach, so understanding this point and knowing how to manage sets of bundles
is important to be able to fully take advantage of OSG i technology.
In this chapter, we'll explore a couple of different aspects of application
management:

Deploying applications using the OSG i Bundle Repository or Deployment-
Admin

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Controlling bundle activation order using the StartLevel service

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