I think they’re placed into that state if they are lazily started, i.e. they 
have a BundleActivationPolicy of ‘lazy’. 

http://www.osgi.org/Design/LazyStart
http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/Bundle-ActivationPolicy

I think it goes from ‘starting’ to ‘started’ when classes have been loaded from 
the bundle.

Alex

On 7 May 2015, at 22:31, Lars Vogel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I frequently see lots of bundles remaining in the life cyle status 
> "Starting". Is this expected? I would assume that "Starting" is a temporary 
> status and that once a bundle has finished starting, it becomes "Active".
> 
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