7.1.7. Service Registration And Unregistration Lifecycle .......................................... 31
7.2. Defining References To OSGi Services ..................................................................... 33
7.2.1. Referencing An Individual Service ................................................................. 33
7.2.2. Referencing A Collection Of Services ............................................................. 37
7.2.3. Dealing With The Dynamics Of OSGi Imported Services ................................ 43
7.2.4. Listener And Service Proxies ......................................................................... 44
7.2.5. Accessing The Caller BundleContext ............................................................. 45
7.3. Exporter/Importer Listener Best Practices .................................................................. 45
7.3.1. Listener And Cyclic Dependencies ................................................................. 46
7.4. Service Importer Global Defaults .............................................................................. 47
7.5. Relationship Between The Service Exporter And Service Importer .............................. 48
8. Working With Bundles ........................................................................................................ 50
9. Web Support ...................................................................................................................... 52
9.1. Supported Web Containers ....................................................................................... 52
9.2. Web Support Usage .................................................................................................. 52
9.3. WAR Classpath In OSGi .......................................................................................... 53
9.3.1. Static Resources ............................................................................................ 53
9.3.2. Servlets ......................................................................................................... 53
9.3.3. Java Server Pages .......................................................................................... 54
9.4. Configuring The Web Extender ................................................................................. 55
9.4.1. Changing The War Deployer .......................................................................... 56
9.5. Customizing The Standard Deployers ........................................................................ 56
9.6. OSGi-ready Libraries And Web Development ............................................................ 57
9.6.1. Deploying Web Containers As OSGi Bundles ................................................. 57
9.6.2. Common Libraries ......................................................................................... 58
9.7. Spring-MVC Integration ........................................................................................... 58
10. Compendium Services ....................................................................................................... 60
10.1. Configuration Admin .............................................................................................. 60
10.1.1. Exposing Configuration Admin Entries As Properties ................................. 60
10.1.2. Managed Properties ..................................................................................... 62
10.1.3. Managed Service Factories ........................................................................... 64
10.1.4. Direct Access To Configuration Data ............................................................ 67
11. Testing OSGi based Applications ....................................................................................... 68
11.1. OSGi Mocks .......................................................................................................... 68
11.2. Integration Testing ................................................................................................. 69
11.2.1. Creating A Simple OSGi Integration Test ...................................................... 69
11.2.2. Installing Test Prerequisites .......................................................................... 70
11.2.3. Advanced Testing Framework Topics ........................................................... 71
11.2.4. Creating An OSGi Application Context ......................................................... 74
11.2.5. Specifying The OSGi Platform To Use ......................................................... 74
11.2.6. Waiting For The Test Dependencies ............................................................. 74
11.2.7. Testing Framework Performance .................................................................. 74
III. Other Resources ........................................................................................................................ 76
12. Useful Links ..................................................................................................................... 77
IV. Appendixes .............................................................................................................................. 78
A. Extensions ......................................................................................................................... 79
A.1. Annotation-Based Injection ...................................................................................... 79
A.1.1. Enabling/Disabling Annotation Processing ..................................................... 79
B. Security Integration ............................................................................................................ 81
C. Eclipse Plug-in Development integration ............................................................................. 82
D. Spring Dynamic Modules Maven Archetype ........................................................................ 86
D.1. Generated Project Features At-A-Glance ................................................................... 86
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