I was really amazed reading this post by Chris Aniszczyk about moving webapp development towards OSGi bundles. A few Eclipse projects are active in that direction, and it is possible to embed Equinox (Eclipse’s OSGi implementation, which underlies Eclipse architecture itself) into a servlet container.

One of the original objectives for the server-side work was to look at what’s involved in launching and interacting with various server-side containers. Currently, there is actively maintained work in support of embedding in a servlet container.

This could really introduce a revolution in webapp development. Amazing.

PS: You might want to read more about the OSGi technology…