Can Spring Boot be used with OSGi? If not, any plans to have an OSGi Spring Boot?

Question

Can Spring Boot be used with OSGi? If not, any plans to have an OSGi Spring Boot (Apache Felix or Eclipse Equinox)? In my opinion, cloud applications must be highly modular and

Answer 1

Spring boot - well typical spring boot apps, are a little "fat" for osgi... if you are using the starter-web or jersey you'd need to add some sort of port determination scheme since ports are shared by all osgi "services" the system that the osgi runtime lives on.

The reason I would recommend avoiding spring-boot unless you can pare it down is the spring boot fat jar / war you create launches a sub class loader. This doesn't simplify things when you get confused about standard osgi class loader issues (com.whatever.someobject.MyClass not being the same in different bundles and classloaders because they are not "imported" from the same bundle that exports to all others) if there are any requirements for interbundle service communication.

I would suggest following guides to pare down to "spring boot core" if any exist you don't need the web listener and avoid all inter-bundle service interfaces that use any objects that aren't part of the standard imports (like core java se classes etc..). You only care about lifecycle right?