On Cauchos blog you can read about their efforts to integrate OSGi into the Resin web server. About a year ago I was part of a team doing the same thing but with our JEE based product iipax. Our findings are quite similar. OSGi, however very promising, is too complex and how to make it fit with existing JEE techniques are confusing to say the least.


We decided to put OSGi on ice for a while. Cacho however decided to build their own solution to the dependency problem. The result is Pomgranate. It uses Mavens Project Object Model as its information base which is nice cause many projects already have their dependencies described there. Pomgranate is not the only project out there with this idea. POMStrap is similar solution to the same problem.