What is the relationship between OSGi and Dependency Injection

Asked 2009-08-31T12:51:05.160

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What are they of each other?

Specification and implementation?
Competitors?
Unrelated?

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They are unrelated.

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DI is a conecpt first described by Martin Fowler, OSGi is a module system for Java that implements a complete and dynamic component model specified by the OSGi Alliance.

DI can be used in languages different from Java, OSGi is specific to Java
OSGi tries to solve the problem of versioned components, DI is an alternative to the old Service Locator pattern.

answered 2009-08-31T12:52:24.977

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