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Table 13.2 Feature comparison of enterprise OSGi servers (continued)

Apache
Geronimo

IBM
WebSphere

Paremus
Nimble

Server Apache Karaf Eclipse Virgo GlassFish JBoss

Support Community Community Included

with license

Community Commer-

cial sup-
port
available

Commer-
cial sup-
port
available

Included
with license

Ty p e Provision-

able frame-
work

Application
server

Application
server

Application
server

Application
server

Application
server

Provision-
able frame-
work

Enterprise
OSGi tech-
nology

Aries Aries Aries Gemini In-house In-house Unspecified

Some of the platforms we've discussed have rich enterprise OSG i support, whereas
others are rolling out the basics. What excites us about all of these servers is the gen-
eral recognition that building modular applications is great. The industry is investing
in enterprise OSG i and the range of options available to you, as an enterprise OSG i
developer, is getting bigger and better.