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Introduction to OSGi with Pax, Maven, and Nexus Professional

We've released a pre-alpha version of the Maven Cookbook which contains a chapter on OSGi development with Maven via the Pax plugin from OPS4J. This chapter contains a series of recipes which will walk you through the process of creating an OSGi project, importing bundles from both a Maven repository and existing OSGi Bundle Repositories (OBR), and executing an OSGi runtime environment all with the help of the Maven Pax Plugin. The last few chapters provide a road map for developers interested in hosting and combining multiple Maven and OBR repositories into a single repository group with Nexus.

To read the pre-alpha, version 0.1.1 release of the Maven Cookbook, you can:

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Written by Tim OBrien

Tim is a Software Architect with experience in all aspects of software development from project inception to developing scaleable production architectures for large-scale systems during critical, high-risk events such as Black Friday. He has helped many organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 100 companies take a more strategic approach to adopting and evaluating technology and managing the risks associated with change.