Hi Robin- Most OSGi containers support two formats for deployed bundles: 1) as a jar file with a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file containing OSGi manifest headers, and 2) as an "exploded jar", which basically means a folder containing a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file with OSGi headers, plus either compiled class files or internal jars (which are not, themselves, bundles).
The Restlet distribution, in the "lib" directory, contains a mixture of bundles in "jar" form (the org.restlet.*.jar bundles), as well as third-party bundles in "exploded jar" format. Notice that all these folders have META-INF folders in them, containing the OSGi metadata. My guess is that they do this because not all third-party libraries are valid OSGi bundles (such as json.jar), and an easy way to bundle-ize them without having to re-jar their contents is to use the exploded-jar format. In order to install one of these exploded folders, you need to use the path to the folder, not the library jars inside them. Hope that helps... -Dave Fogel ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2383508
