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In-Depth Information
Packaging your
enterprise OSGi
applications
This chapter covers
The limitations of JARs and bundles for
packaging large applications
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How enterprise OSGi applications can be
packaged as a single unit
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Other solutions to the OSGi application
packaging problem
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How to package your sample application as a
single deployable unit
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Over the past couple of chapters you've put together an application consisting of a
number of application bundles. As the number of bundles increased, it's quickly
become unmanageable when you try to deploy it. Even with only a simple web front-
end and the persisted backend that you added in the last chapter, the application has
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