The Tuscany runtime can be run in and OSGi container. Running in Equinox ------------------ On Windows, run java -jar ..\..\modules\osgi-3.5.0-v20090520.jar -configuration ..\..\features\configuration -clean -console On *Unix, run java -jar ../../modules/osgi-3.5.0-v20090520.jar -configuration ../../features/configuration -clean -console You should see the osgi console: osgi> osgi> Jun 22, 2009 1:32:27 PM org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility.equinox.EquinoxServiceDiscoveryActivator start INFO: Equinox-based service discoverer is now configured. You can run "ss" command under the osgi> to see the status of the bundles. osgi> ss Then you can install and start contributions as bundles by doing the following: osgi> install file:./path/to/contribution_bundle.jar Note that contribution_bundle.jar will need an activator in order to register the bundle as a SCA contribution see samples/???? TODO is this still true Running on Felix ---------------- See http://tuscany.apache.org/documentation-2x/running-tuscany-sca-2x-with-equinox-and-felix.html