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| <title>Part II. Reference Documentation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/html.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.72.0"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Reference Guide"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Reference Guide"><link rel="prev" href="what-is-new.html" title="Chapter 5. What is new?"><link rel="next" href="blueprint.html" title="Chapter 6. OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Container"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="part" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="reference"></a>Part II. Reference Documentation</h1></div></div></div><div class="partintro" lang="en"><div><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="d18e423"></a>Document structure</h1></div></div></div><p>This part of the reference documentation explains the core functionality | |
| offered by Gemini Blueprint.</p><p><a href="blueprint.html" title="Chapter 6. OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Container">Chapter 6, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Container</i></a> describes the relationship between Spring DM and OSGi 4.2 | |
| Blueprint Container specification (part of the Compendium Services) and the similiarities and | |
| differences between them.</p><p><a href="bnd-app-ctx.html" title="Chapter 7. Bundles and Application Contexts">Chapter 7, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Bundles and Application Contexts</i></a> describes the relationship between an OSGi Bundle and a | |
| Spring Application Context, | |
| and introduces the Spring Extender Bundle support for instantiating | |
| application contexts automatically.</p><p><a href="app-deploy.html" title="Chapter 8. Packaging and Deploying Spring-based OSGi applications">Chapter 8, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Packaging and Deploying Spring-based OSGi applications</i></a> describes how to deploy the Spring Framework jar files in | |
| an OSGi environment, and how to reference external APIs from your | |
| application bundles should you need to do so. This chapter also explains | |
| some of the issues to be aware of when using existing enterprise | |
| libraries not designed for OSGi in an OSGi environment.</p><p><a href="service-registry.html" title="Chapter 9. The Service Registry">Chapter 9, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">The Service Registry</i></a> describes how to export Spring | |
| beans as services in the OSGi service registry, and how to inject | |
| references to OSGi services into beans. This chapter also defines how | |
| the dynamic life-cycle of OSGi services and bundles is supported.</p><p><a href="bundles.html" title="Chapter 10. Working With Bundles">Chapter 10, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Working With Bundles</i></a> describes how to declare a bean | |
| that represents an OSGi bundle, including support for installing new | |
| bundles into the OSGi platform.</p><p><a href="compendium.html" title="Chapter 11. Compendium Services">Chapter 11, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Compendium Services</i></a> describes the support provided | |
| for the <a xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" href="http://www2.osgi.org/Release4/Download" target="_top">OSGi | |
| Compendium Services</a>, specifically the Configuration Admin | |
| service.</p><p><a href="testing.html" title="Chapter 12. Testing OSGi based Applications">Chapter 12, <i xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Testing OSGi based Applications</i></a> explains the | |
| integration testing support provided by Gemini Blueprint. This | |
| support enables you to write simple JUnit integration tests that can | |
| start up an OSGi environment, install the bundles needed for the | |
| integration test, execute the test case(s) inside of OSGi, and return | |
| the results to the runner. This makes it easy to integrate OSGi | |
| integration testing into any environment that can work with | |
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