What does OSGi solve?

Question

I\'ve read on Wikipedia and other sites about OSGi, but I don\'t really see the big picture. It says that it\'s a component-based platform, and that you can reload modules a

Answer 1

The OSGi provides following benefit:

■ A portable and secure execution environment based on Java

■ A service management system, which can be used to register and share services across bundles and decouple service providers from service consumers

■ A dynamic module system, which can be used to dynamically install and uninstall Java modules, which OSGi calls bundles

■ A lightweight and scalable solution