3. Coding Guidelines

• 3.1. Code readability: This section specifies conventions, such as classes, interfaces and packages naming patterns to improve code readability.

• 3.2. OSGi decoupling: This section identifies best practices in order to have our business code decoupled from the OSGi runtime.

• 3.3. OSGi best practices: This section contains guidelines for OSGi bundle creation.

• 3.4. Karaf features: This section defines how karaf features should be defined for bundle provisioning.

For sections 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 you can find further information in the following references:

• API design practices for Java. BJ Hargrave. August 2018
• An Empirical Evaluation of OSGi Dependencies Best Practices in the Eclipse IDE. Lina Ochoa, Thomas Degueule, Jurgen Vinju. 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, May 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. <10.1145/3196398.3196416>.
• OSGi Best practices. Tim Ward. 2011 (begining slide 13)
• Best practices for developing and working with OSGi applications. Graham Charters, Jeremy Hughes, Tim Mitchell, Alasdair Nottingham, Mark Nuttall, Zoe Slattery, and Tim Ward. July 2010
• OSGi Best Practices. BJ Hargrave, Peter Kriens. OSGi Alliance Community Event, June 2007
• Red Hat OSGI Best Practices