AFAIK, all jar files in the lib folder are added to the classpath, so if anyone want to add jars globally without using bundles, that's the way to go. See https://github.com/apache/karaf/blob/trunk/main/src/main/java/org/apache/karaf/main/Main.java#L266
The lib/ext lib/endorsed and lib/karaf-*.jar are used to create the JVM application classloader and make sure the initial environment is quite safe and undisturbed. All other lib/*.jar files are added to the classloader used to create the OSGi framework and should be available For JDBC drivers, they need to be available from the application classloader, so what could be done without changing the current behavior and introducing incompatibilities is to add a lib/app/ folder which would be added to the application classloader (i.e. in the shell scripts). Thoughts ? 2013/5/13 Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> > Hi, > > ok, I'd like to get the discussion into the dev-list away from the jira > issue :-) > > Now, I've heard both sides of the story and tbh, it's not an easy thing > here. > I agree that it's not a understandable solution to have bootloaded jars > with a karaf- prefix. > I'm not sure about the bundle looking for external jars in the lib folder, > it feels almost like an > extra file-installer thing bound to the lib folder. > @Dan could you please elaborate your use-case for placing your custom > libraries in this folder > and how you use them? > > I also agree that a JDBC driver should be used as a bundle and not like a > bootloader jar, though I'm not sure > if this is also doable for the failover configuration. > One of the comments mentioned that it might be a better solution to look > for bootloaded jars in the > lib/karaf folder. Right now to me it sounds most likely to be the only > working solution. Especially since we > do have those "extra" bundles that are managed by the karaf main class. > > regards, Achim > > > 2013/5/13 Freeman Fang <[email protected]> > > > I'm also concerned about this change, added my comment in KARAF-1545 > > －－－－－－－－－－－－－ > > Freeman(Yue) Fang > > > > Red Hat, Inc. > > FuseSource is now part of Red Hat > > Web: http://fusesource.com | http://www.redhat.com/ > > Twitter: freemanfang > > Blog: http://freemanfang.blogspot.com > > http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1473905042 > > weibo: @Freeman小屋 > > > > www.camelone.org : The open source integration conference: > > > > On 2013-5-13, at 下午1:53, Dan Tran wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have addressed my concerns on this enhancement, and would like to > hear > > > more from dev group. > > > > > > Big Thanks > > > > > > -Dan > > > > > > > -- > > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & > Project Lead > OPS4J Pax for Vaadin <http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/PAXVAADIN/Home> > Commiter & Project Lead > blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> >
