Welcome to the Flow Framework

The Flow Framework is an OSGi Service Platform extension leveraging service deployment, providing transitive service dependency management at runtime. The framework supports service and service dependency declaration via annotations (@Service, @Inject) and participates in the lifecycle of OSGi bundles, providing maximum flexibility at runtime.

Flow is a pragmatic approach to SOA, limiting its infrastructure and footprint to a minimum.

Follow this tutorial to get up and running and to learn how to develop and deploy services with the Flow Framework.

The Flow Framework is currently in alpha state, ie. not stable nor production ready. The currently available release is an early-access release to showcase the ideas and concepts behind the framework.

The final 1.0 release will include the following features:

• Dynamic runtime management of services
• Transitive service dependency management at runtime
• Participation in lifecycle state changes of OSGi bundles
• Service declaration via annotations (@Service)
• Service dependency declaration via annotations (@Inject)
• Service discovery at runtime
• Support for "autostart" services

For subsequent releases remote services a well as different runtime-configuration user interfaces (UI) are planned (SWT, Web...).

Both binary and source distributions are available at the download page.