Wholeheartedly agree on OSGi. Disastrous implementations. I worked with servicemix and still have nightmares around class path issues and crazy bundle scoping r

Wholeheartedly agree on OSGi. Disastrous implementations. I worked with servicemix and still have nightmares around class path issues and crazy bundle scoping rules. A plain old maven built jar with shading works much better in practice, but shading itself is shady :)