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It is a framework to develop (dynamic) modular software applications using component and/or service-oriented programming. </p> <p class="card-text"> Apache Celix is primarily developed in C and adds an additional abstraction, in the form of a library, to support for C++. </p> <p class="card-text"> Modularity in Apache Celix is achieved by supporting - run-time installed - bundles. <code>Bundles</code> are zip files and can contain software modules in the form of shared libraries. <code>Modules</code> can provide and request dynamic services, for and from other modules, by interacting with a provided bundle context. <code>Services</code> in Apache Celix are "plain old" structs with function pointers or "plain old C++ Objects" (POCO). </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row my-4"> <div class="col-sm-12 card"> <div class="card-body"> <h4 class="card-title">News</h4> <p class="card-text"> <strong>29-September-2023</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.4.0 is released.<br> <strong>14-July-2022</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.3.0 is released.<br> <strong>17-May-2020</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.2.1 is released.<br> <strong>09-Jan-2020</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.2.0 is released.<br> <strong>30-Jan-2018</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.1.0 is released.<br> <strong>26-Oct-2016</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 2.0.0 is released.<br> <strong>16-Jul-2014</strong> - After a successful graduation vote Apache Celix has graduated to a top-level project.<br> <strong>25-Feb-2014</strong> - After a successful vote Celix 1.0.0.incubating is released. 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