Nearly all Java EE Application Servers now use OSGi in their runtimes, greatly improving efficiency, fault tolerance, and security. The new OSGi Enterprise Specification and projects such as Apache Aries and Geronimo, that provide pluggable OSGi components, make it easier than ever to use OSGi's powerful, elegant, and mature modularity system in enterprise applications. Enterprise OSGi in Action is a hands-on guide for developers using OSGi to build the next generation of enterprise Java applications. By presenting relevant examples and case studies, it guides readers through the maze of new standards and projects, arming them with the knowledge to build and deploy enterprise OSGi applications, use automatic dependency provisioning, provide enterprise qualities of service to their business logic, and make use of the Java EE technologies they know and love.

Holly Cummins is a software engineer within the WebSphere team at IBM\'s Hursley labs. She is a popular speaker and has spoken at a variety of industry events including Devoxx, JavaZone, The ServerSide Java Symposium, The Great Indian Developer Summit, and WebSphere User Groups. She has also authored several developerWorks articles. She is a committer on the Apache Aries project. Holly has been with IBM for nine years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford.

Tim Ward is a design and development lead for IBM’s OSGi Applications support in WebSphere Application Server. He participates in the OSGi Alliance Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups, building specifications describing the use of enterprise technologies in an OSGi framework. Tim is also a member of the Project Management Committee for the Apache Aries project, and can often be found extolling the virtues of Enterprise OSGi at conferences like EclipseCon, Devoxx and Jazoon.