Reviews for OSGi and Equinox: Creating Highly Modular Java Systems

1. If you are an 'eclipse' developer this book good be for you...

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2010

   I bought this book because it was the first published book on OSGI (apart from a preliminary early access version of OSGI in Action. My main aim was to dive into OSGI. The book does this, but it is too much focussed on Eclipse and does not go that much into OSGI.
   
   Some examples:
   * There are alternatives for building OSGI bundles (maven, maven-bundle-plugin) but these are not discussed. Instead an eclipse centric approach is chosen.
   * The junit test example is clumsy and far inferior to a pax-exam method of testing
   * It introduces some GUI framework (Crust) out of the blue and starts creating a cool application based on that. At that point I disconnected because I want to know about OSGI and not about some framework that is built on top of OSGI.
   * The basic architecture of OSGI is not discussed (module, lifecycle, service, and security layers).
   * It contains a lot of descriptions about Eclipse user interfaces.
   
   All in all I was a bit disappointed, but if your are (as the book information says) an Eclipse developer and you consider eclipse the center of the world then this book might be for you.