Jeff Mc Affer and Paul VanderLei , in a relaxed chat, presented the audience some funny slides  to emphasize on things we’re doing wrong when using OSGi.

1. distracted by infrastructure : the time you spend on it is a time you could have used focusing on your business
2. It’s bad mojo to pollute the POJO (Austin Powers anyone ?) : why are those developers always obsessed at getting their BundleContext ? to register services ? did you read the declarative services spec ?
3. Using Services in a risky way : Jeff gave an example with previous P2 code, using helper method to getService (find the registry, get the reference, and the service from that reference) why risky ? to use the serviceTracker safely, you need a fat amount of lines of code, there are 5 synchronized blocks, etc.. The solution ? use Declarative Services
4. Being too fine-grained : just because you can declare a lot of services, does not mean you should; think twice about your use case;
5. Putting too much in your bundle : does this class needs to be duplicated or should I create a huge bundle to contain all my utility classes ? classes have to be together for a good reason
6. Low packages cohesion : do finer grained package, to be able to evolute easily
7. Failure to refactor : don’t forget to refactor ! It’s  agile development !
8. Failure to define (good) API : with good fences and good gate it protects you from having people using this private method you clearly do not want to support, as a producer you have to make clear how to consume your API.
9. Failure to follow API : related to point 9. , follow the restrictions, if you do not, migrating to the next version will become an head ache.
10. Clinging to old ideas : it will cost you time, modularity, money if you stick on old ideas that do not take into account OSGi at all.

Stop trying to guess your start levels, think dynamic !

In a nutshell :

• Get your granularity right
• plan for refactoring
• don’t pollute your POJOs, for that,
• Use declarative services
• Manage your APIs
• Respect other people’s API

There’s a last sign you do OSGi wrong : you did not read the book OSGi and Equinox , Creating Modular Java Systems

Very interesting and entertaining presentation !