Developing a Liberty feature for Liberty

A Liberty feature consists of a feature manifest file and one or more OSGi bundles. The OSGi bundles contain classes and services that provide a particular capability when the feature is installed onto a Liberty server.

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You can develop a Liberty feature in either of the following ways:

Develop the feature manually; see Developing a Liberty feature manually.
Use the WebSphere® Application Server Developer Tools; see Creating a Liberty feature by using developer tools.

For full details on developing Liberty features, see the following subtopics: