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Web applications
and web services
This chapter covers
Using the OSGi HTTP Service specification to
serve content and servlets
■
Using the OSGi Web Applications specification
to deploy WAR files
■
Using the OSGi Remote Services specification
to provide and consume web services
■
This is it: the last chapter. We hope that throughout the course of this topic, we've been
able to convince you that
OSG
i technology is fairly easy to use and extremely powerful.
This final chapter touches on an area that we haven't covered yet but that is hugely
important to many modern developers: web applications and web services. We'll show
you how to build and deploy web applications using
OSG
i, and the benefits this tech-
nique can bring to traditional web-development frameworks. You'll reuse a lot of
knowledge from earlier in the topic to build a dynamic, distributed
OSG
i application.
Web-related technologies are ubiquitous. Almost all organizations and many indi-
viduals have some form of web presence, whether via social networking sites, static
HTML
pages, simple one-tier web applications, medium-sized n-tiered architectures,
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