Hello all, I have a ClassLoading issue with my bundles and I hope you can help me solve it.
The problem is that I have two versions of a bundle ( let's name them A and A' ) exposing some services to other bundles in the application. Both versions have quite identical classes except for bundle A having some extra profiling code in all of its classes compared bundle A. Each bundle A or A' shares instances from its classes with other bundles either through service hooks or through explicit export- and import-package constructs. The problem I am facing is that when I swap A with A', the objects shared as OSGi services get swapped as expected, however the classes shared through explicit import and export constructs don't get swapped. Explicitly said, some of the classes from A remain loaded and accessible to classes in other bundles through the defining class loader that for the first time loads those classes. However, classes providing a service are swapped as a matter of replacing A with A'. I believe this is mainly because the defining loader that initially loads classes from A remains reachable by some other bundles in the application. However, it seems very difficult for me to detect which bundles are holding references and to which classes from the initially loaded classes in A. I wonder if there is any way to explicitly enforce the initially loaded classes to get garbage collected so that every single time I swap A and A', I get proper wiring for classes in each bundle as expected. I would very much appreciate any help or hint, -Nima -- http://nima.magic.ubc.ca
