chapter ten
Chapter 10. Hooking up remote systems with distributed OSGi
This chapter covers
- The Remote Services Specification
- How remote services differ from local services
- Exposing an OSGi service as an external endpoint
- Transparently calling a remote endpoint as an OSGi service
- SCA as an alternative distribution mechanism
In previous chapters, you’ve spent a great deal of effort building a scalable, extensible online superstore application. Although it’s unlikely that this exact application will ever be used in a production system, it does demonstrate the sorts of patterns that real enterprise applications use, such as that the application can be added to over time.