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The Virgo Web Server from EclipseRT is a completely module-based Java application server that is designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications with a high degree of flexibility and reliability. It offers a simple yet comprehensive platform to develop, deploy, and service enterprise Java applications. The Virgo kernel supports the core concepts of Virgo and is not biased towards the web server, thus enabling other types of server to be created. The kernel can also be used stand-alone as a rich OSGi application platform. A server runtime can easily be constructed by deploying suitable bundles on top of the kernel.

"what if I just dropped the EMF bundles into the same place, modified the demo .plan file to include them, and.. No way that could possibly work, right? Not only did it work, but it actually worked before I thought it would. I was ready for endless rounds of editing, rebuilding, restarting, reloading, re.. But instead, I saved the changes to the .plan file and Equinox/Virgo automagically hot-loaded them and ran through the dependencies there and then. I cleaned a couple of things up, and then I navigated to the URL, and there it was. Seriously, I haven't been that impressed by a technology that "just worked" since the first time I built an EMF model and editor. I'll say it: The Virgo/RAP/EMF stack is going to be -- already is -- a kick-ass combination. Light-weight development, light-weight deployment, industrial strength, web-based MDSD."

Eclipse Gemini Blueprint is the reference implementation for the OSGi Alliance Blueprint Service (chapter 121 of the OSGi 4.2 Compendium Specification). Gemini Blueprint project makes it easy to build Java applications that run in an OSGi framework. By using Gemini Blueprint, applications benefit from using a better separation of modules, the ability to dynamically add, remove, and update modules in a running system, the ability to deploy multiple versions of a module simultaneously (and have clients automatically bind to the appropriate one), and a dynamic service model. Gemini users may also be interested in Eclipse Virgo, an open source, completely modular, OSGi-based Java application server. Its documentation is considered a supplement to Gemini Blueprint as it explains in detail, how OSGi can be used in various development and production scenarios.