A developer shares their painful experience implementing OSGi modularity in their Java job queue manager application. Despite having well-architected code and prior OSGi experience, they encountered numerous challenges including poor library compatibility, complex class loading issues, inadequate documentation, difficult testing, and various framework quirks. The team ultimately abandoned OSGi in favor of JPMS, concluding that while OSGi forced better code structure, the framework's complexity and maintenance burden outweighed its benefits.
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