我还不是OSGi的“粉丝”…

我一直在财富100强公司使用企业应用程序。最近，我们使用的产品已经“升级”为OSGi实现。

启动本地cba部署… [2/18/14 8:47:23 727 EST] 00000347 CheckForOasis

最终部署，“以下包将暂停，然后重新启动” 00000143 AriesApplicat I CWSAI0054I:作为应用程序更新操作的一部分

51分钟……每次代码改变…以前的版本(非osgi)在旧的开发机器上部署不到5分钟。

在一台有16g内存和40g空闲磁盘和Intel i5-3437U 1.9 GHz CPU的机器上

The "benefit" of this upgrade was sold as improving (production) deployments - an activity that we do about 4 times a year with maybe 2-4 small fix deployments a year. Adding 45 minutes per day to 15 people (QA and developers) I can't imagine ever being justified. In big enterprise applications, if your application is a core application, then changing it is, rightly so (small changes have potential for far reaching impacts - must be communicated and planned with consumers all over the enterprise), a monumental activity - wrong architecture for OSGi. If your application is not an enterprise application - i.e. each consumer can have their own tailored module likely hitting their own silo of data in their own silo'd database and running on a server that hosts many applications, then maybe look at OSGi. At least, that is my experience thus far.

它还被用于在移动端带来额外的中间件和应用程序的可移植性。移动端可用于WinMo, Symbian, Android等。一旦与设备功能集成，就会出现碎片化。

为清晰起见，经过编辑。OSGi页面给出了一个比我更好的简单答案

一个简单的答案:OSGi服务平台为协作网络服务提供了一个标准化的、面向组件的计算环境。这种体系结构显著降低了构建、维护和部署应用程序的整体复杂性。 OSGi服务平台提供了在各种网络的设备上动态改变组合的功能，不需要重新启动。

在单个应用程序结构中，比如Eclipse IDE，在安装新插件时重新启动并不是什么大问题。完全使用OSGi实现，您应该能够在运行时添加插件，获得新功能，而完全不需要重新启动eclipse。

同样，这不是每天都要做的大事，只是应用程序的小用途。

但是，当你开始研究多计算机、分布式应用框架时，这就是它开始变得有趣的地方。当关键系统必须有100%的正常运行时间时，热插拔组件或在运行时添加新功能的能力非常有用。当然，现在大多数情况下都有这样做的能力，但是OSGi正试图将所有东西捆绑到一个具有公共接口的漂亮的小框架中。

OSGi能解决常见问题吗，我不确定。我的意思是，它可以，但对于更简单的问题，开销可能不值得。但是当您开始处理更大的、网络化的应用程序时，需要考虑这一点。

OSGi提供了以下好处:

■基于Java的可移植安全执行环境

■服务管理系统，可用于跨包注册和共享服务，并将服务提供者与服务消费者分离

■动态模块系统，可用于动态安装和卸载 Java模块，OSGi称之为包

轻量级和可扩展的解决方案

I don't care too much about the hotplugability of OSGi modules (at least currently). It's more the enforced modularity. Not having millions of "public" classes available on the classpath at any time protects well from circular dependencies: You have to really think about your public interfaces - not just in terms of the java language construct "public", but in terms of your library/module: What (exactly) are the components, that you want to make available for others? What (exactly) are the interfaces (of other modules) you really need to implement your functionality?

这很好，热插拔是附带的，但我宁愿重新启动我通常的应用程序，而不是测试所有的热插拔组合…

其他人已经详细概述了OSGi的好处，我在此解释我所见过或使用过的实际用例。

In one of our application, we have event based flow and flow is defined in plugins based on OSGi platform so tomorrow if some client wants different/additional flow then he just have to deploy one more plugin, configure it from our console and he is done. It is used for deploying different Store connectors, for example, suppose we already have Oracle DB connector and tomorrow mongodb is required to be connected then write a new connector and deploy it and configure the details through console and again you are done. deployment of connnectors is handled by OSGi plugin framework.