OSGi architecture of Carbon

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Submitted by ricker on January 21, 2009 - 10:06
I was excited to see that WSO2 was OSGi. However, after downloading some projects, I do not see OSGi. I see WAR. I expected to see an OSGi server that runs webapps. Instead I see a webapp that runs OSGi bundles. Am I reading this right?
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Carbon has been architected

Submitted by afkham_azeez on May 29, 2009 - 20:54.
Carbon has been architected in such a way that a it starts life as a webapp, which fires up an OSGi container (We use Equinox). All the Carbon components are OSGi bundles, which get deployed within this OSGi container. A large number of users want to deploy Carbon within a servlet container, hences we've designed it like this. However, you can deploy the Carbon components within some other OSGi container as well, since that is the way it is running even at this moment.
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Does it have to start life

Submitted by ricker on May 30, 2009 - 09:39.
Does it have to start life as a web app? Can I skip the web app part and launch Carbon from the Equinox platform directly?
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Carbon architecture

Submitted by chao2004.gmail.com on July 26, 2010 - 10:49.
Hi, I am trying to figure out the Carbon OSGi architecture as well. I don't understand why you see war. I instead see standalone server which starts the OSGi container and then everything else is deployed into the OSGi container. It is a little frustrating for me that there is no pre-packaged war for tomcat deployment. Tried to follow the instructions to deploy to tomcat, the server started successfully, but I was not able to access the admin console.
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