I understand the problem that OSGI solved thanks to this question.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106222/what-does-osgi-solve And I am already convinved that Guice is amazing so I'm curious what this OSGI integration for Guice known as "peaberry" is supposed to do, it seems to be popping up everywhere, even in Maven 3 presentations. http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/