To deploy an application which uses SCB, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 6 or higher is needed. If the application does not use OSGi, then the SCB Core, the jars required for compilation, as well as the needed implementations (typically one provider for storage, serialization, and parsing) must be in the classpath. If the application uses OSGi, these jars are loaded as bundles, and to run in OSGi, Declarative Services must be enabled (see the documentation of your OSGi container).

The use of SCB in an OSGi environment has been tested with Apache Felix [7] and Eclipse Equinox [8].