We're currently experimenting with OSGI in Cocoon, here are pointers to useful information.

See Also

• Blockathon2005Report
• OsgiTipsAndTricks
• The oscar-dev at incubator.apache.org mailing list
  

Discussions on dev@cocoon

• RT - Goals for the next major release of Cocoon
• Initial code
• Changing the framework
• Dependencies and classloading
• Metadata
  

General information

• OSGI tutorials (del.icio.us links)
• The OSGi Service Platform
• OSGi R3 spec
  

Licensing

• Eclipse: OSGI license needs clarification
  

Eclipse OSGi implementation (Equinox)

• Information about the Eclipse runtime
• Versioning of bundles and packages
• OSGi R4 properties
  

OSGi & Component management

• Examining the Validity of IoC - theserverside.com
• OSGi and Avalon Merlin - rather old but talks about placing OSGi on top of Merlin
• Eclipse moving to OSGi - discuessed by the Avalon community
• blocks, auto-assembly, versioning - discussed by the Avalon community
  

Other opensource OSGi implementations

• Oscar (Oscar Bundle Repository)
• Knopflerfish
  

Embeding OSGi within a servlet

• Knopflerfish in servlet - discussed at the Knopflerfish forum
• There was also a discussion on one of the Eclipse lists or newsgroups, either platform or Equinox, but I cannot find it