Hot pluggablity of changes on the web server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing specific until now. It may be a challenge in the pure CNA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Karaf is a great runtime for our Java application. It allows the creation of loosely coupled services and provides the necessary infrastructure for our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tutorials/examples could be a bit better as there are several options on how to do some things or as the OSGi spec has changed or new versions of Karaf have come out, there are new/better ways but you sometimes find the old way when searching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very good at making sure the software built is from a known version of every component that is part of it. This is because version parameters are set up for each component in the application, that control the min and max version of that particular component. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially it is very hard to set up the feature file for the application - which lists all the components and their dependencies. Often would get wiring errors, and the error messages are not very helpful in explaining them. It is a lot of trial and error, and very time consuming. Once set up it works great, until you have to introduce a new component into the mix and then sometimes the fun begins all over again! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The hot deploy feature allows you to simply drop a KAR package, and the deployment is complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need to restart it often; in case of an upgraded package, it doesn't sync. Restart the container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.