One the the big challenges in software development is reducing cost but increase the quality of product. Choosing the wrong tools, framework can cause the big problem for projects. Many software companies have the common solutions for this problem:

Software life cycle is divided into 5 main processes: Acquisition, Supply, Development, Operation and Maintenance. The cost for Acquisition and Supply is obvious and company must pay for that within the defined budget. However, when they perform the third process ‘Development’ that can cause cost of phases ‘Operation’ and ‘Maintenance’ can not be controlled.

In out-sourcing software industry, one of the most important things the offshore development must focus that is project’s scope. All things are defined in project’s scope are the commitment between us and customer. Project’s scope also be the main value to calculate the cost of project. Whatever artifact you do outside [...]

Here is the simple Osgi application with Equinox framework and I use Maven as build tool. The structure of this project is described in follow: