OSGi Working Group

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OSGI, started in 2000, aimed to provide versioned components that could be safely deployed and undeployed at runtime. It kept the JAR deployment unit but added metadata in its manifest. OSGi was powerful, but developing an OSGi bundle (the name for a module) was complex. Developers paid a higher development cost while the operation team enjoyed the deployment benefits. DevOps had yet to be born; it didn’t make OSGi as popular as it could have been.

In parallel, Java’s architects searched for their path to modularizing the JDK. The approach is much simpler compared to OSGI, as it avoids deployment and versioning concerns. Java modules, introduced in Java 9, limit themselves to the following data: a name, a public API, and dependencies to other modules.