Apache Felix is an open source implementation of the OSGi Core Release 6 framework specification.

[3] The developers worked on Felix for a full year and have made various improvements while retaining the original footprint and performance.

To run Apache Felix OSGi, you need to download the felix-framework-4.x.x.tar.gz or felix-framework-4.x.x.zip compressed file from the site.

Once you have extracted the Felix framework distribution, from the command line in the extracted directory type the following: java -jar bin/felix.jar After bundles are installed and running, typing a command like help from the console will display all available commands, which are: Felix Framework Distribution List of subprojects of which the Apache Felix framework consists.

The projects listed below highlight the adoption of Apache Felix: