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With a history stretching back more than a decade, the IGB project has very deep roots, and represents many years of coding effort.  As the project has matured and gained traction in the community, the engineering effort behind the project has become increasingly sophisticated and professionalized.  In recent years, there has been a major effort on the part of the IGB development team to adopt widely recognized software industry best practices in all phases of our software development life cycle.  One particular area we have been focusing on is adopting a modular service based architecture using the OSGi (open service gateway initiative) standard.  

Why use a modular services-based architecture?

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