OSGI creating modular web application

Question

I have been looking for a solution to create a modular web application, which is modular in the sense that user can provide its own plugin in form of a simple jar which will the

Answer 1

You may want to try ChonCMS - http://www.choncms.com

Its architecture is based exactly on what you are asking, it comes with few plugins to enable base CMS functionality, it is modular platform with minor web app container using felix and plugins can be added/removed at run time as well.

Disadvantage might be that it has lack of documentation, but you may ask, it is open source, I'm sure they will be happy to answer questions, and even better you can contribute - it is still in incubation phase.