I had the same problem and was pointed to the OSGi r4.2 draft spec.
It defines a framework launching API, which has a number of launching
properties. The following property exports external jars as if they
are part of the framework:
org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra
I have used it successfully with Equinox build 3.5.0.v20090311.
- Jae
On Apr 20, 2009, at 9:29 AM, David Bosschaert wrote:
Well, one thing you could do is wrap the external jar and turn it
into an OSGi bundle. There's two ways to do this:
1. Update the manifest of the jar to add the OSGi metadata (Bundle-
SymbolicName, Import-Package, Export-Package etc)
2. Wrap the jar as-is on another bundle jar that has the OSGi
metadata and a Bundle-Classpath header pointing to the embedded jar.
Option 1 has the benefit that the jar is also still an ordinary jar
that could potentially be used outside of OSGi (this is sometimes
desired). Option 2 has the benefit that you don't need to modify the
original, as it is embedded as-is in a new jar.
In both cases the resulting bundle is fully OSGi compliant and will
work with any OSGi container.
The BND tool from Peter Kriens (and its mavenized version the maven-
bundle-plugin) will help you create these.
David
Thomas Watson wrote:
There is no standard way to reference an external jar from a
bundle. In OSGi, bundles can only satisfy their code dependencies
by import-package/require-bundle constraints or with their own
private content. There is an Equinox specific way to do this but it
greatly breaks the notion of modularity. You should ask such
questions on the equinox newsgroup.
Tom
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