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10.3 Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to manage your OSG i-based applications. We cov-
ered the following issues:

One of the key management tasks is deploying bundles to the OSG i framework.
You can use multiple techniques to do so, including rolling your own approach
or using technologies like OBR and Deployment Admin.

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OBR focuses on discovering and deploying bundles and the transitive closure of
their dependencies, whereas Deployment Admin focuses on defining and
deploying sets of bundles and needed resources.

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You can use the Start Level Service to control the relative activation order of
your deployed bundles, which may be needed in a few situations like creating
splash screens and different execution modes.

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These topics have given you a fairly good foundation for managing your bundles. Now
that you know how to build and manage your OSG i applications, we'll move into more
advanced topics, such as service-oriented component models.