Quick setup and running - in a SpringBoot application just add annotation @KafkaListener to your Consumer and you are good to go.

Also you can explore more complex setups while using a running application.

Also horizontal scalability is a big like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wished that a graphical explorer interface would be provided for inspecting topics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deployment process of a batch applications was very simple in Apache Karaf even in the Clustered Environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the deployment of image on the servers were not reflected properly on all the servers so we need to re-deploy the application on all the servers again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works as a standalone container. Supported multiple platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It felt quite complicated . The solutioning had quite long process of sending a request from database to the outbound application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s very easy deploy either directly or using devops . Also have command based to Manages environments. Good handles on server load in distributing system and great on process management and memory management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to improve the cloud api call in order to update configuration and properties Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Making logical independent modules,

Wrapping normal jar, predefined dependencies as a features, anatomy of each bundle, powerfull shell command and bundle life cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes resolving dependencies takes so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Folder based hot deployment, Centralized Logging System,It has it's own way of provisioning bundles and start levels. (org.apache.karaf.features) and Karaf has it's own maven plugins as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1) Class-loading is the most obvious challenge when using OSGi.

2) some open source libraries may be not fully compatible with OSGi infrastructure and it may be hard to use them out of the box as it is in standard Java applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compatibility Set , OSGI bundle, Service, private and public API and modularity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Required expert to develop app using Fuse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Loose coupling of modules. And services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some in-depth concepts like logging in karat is difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nice implementation, in boundaries of OSGI achieves quite good results. It is the result of human design, it would be better if it is the result of more natural human action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OSGI standard is artificial and too complicated. There are probably better solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

management of bundles (can easily install new bundle, start, stop) - very useful when running OSGI modules and you want to temporarily stop/add some modules;

lightweight

independent bundles - no cascade fails Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

takes very long to update (difficult to test, have to maven install and restart the whole thing)

logs sometimes are not useful (very often it occurs that some module is failing and you cant understand why until you find out that some requirement is missing, but logs not saying anything about it)

updating module that contains hibernate entities requires to restart whole Karaf (otherwise hibernate connection is not recreated)

no self load balancing

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