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In this series, we’ll look at creating modular and flexible server applications based on OSGi/Equinox and Restlet. The first article of this series covers the basics: It will walk you through creating a simple REST style web service using Restlet and show you how to roll it into a standalone application based on the equinox OSGi framework.

The next posts will go into how the different Restlet types can be assembled into bigger applications. We’ll then build extension points to lift the actual plumbing to a declarative level instead of hardcoding it.

We’ll see that the uniform interface proposed in the REST architectural style and the extension/extension point mechanisms in Equinox make quite a good couple.