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Modular Java: a review

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Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring is one of the first OSGi books hitting the shelves this year, and probably the most practical and simple book on server-side OSGi published so far.
The author (Craig Walls) adopts a [...]

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Maven, OSGi, Scala and more in the new Sonatype Maven Cookbook

Sonatype has just release a new Maven cookbook authored by Stuart McCulloch and Tim O’Brien; the interesting thing is that this new book focuses on more “unusual” ways to use Maven, like

Building OSGi application with Maven
Groovy Maven
Scala and Maven

Read the book here. A pdf download is also available.

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OSGi Bookshelf, update 1

Five months have passed after since my previous post on the state of OSGi books, so it’s time to have a look again to our bookshelves to see what’s new.
Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring, by Craig Walls
I totally missed this title last February, but it seems Craig and the Pragmatic Programmers [...]

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OSGi Bookshelf

As I stated in the first post, there aren’t many (completed) books on OGSi yet. Here’s an annotated list:
OSGi in Practice, by Neil Bartlett
Not complete yet, but it’s free, and it’s, in my opinion, the most well-written book on the topic. Donwload it here
OSGi in Action, Manning, by Richard S. Hall, Karl Pauls, and Stuart [...]

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