SpringSource Application Platform Deployment Options

As Rob mentioned in his post last week, Introducing the SpringSource Application Platform, the Platform supports applications packaged in the following forms:

1. Raw OSGi Bundles
2. Java EE WAR
3. Web Modules
4. Platform Archive (PAR)

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For Web Application Archives (WAR), the SpringSource Application Platform provides support for the following three formats.

1. Standard Java EE WAR
2. Shared Libraries WAR
3. Shared Services WAR

Each of these formats plays a distinct role in the incremental migration path from a standard Java EE WAR to an OSGi-ified web application.