Hi all, Apologies for posting to the Karaf list as this is not really a Karaf issue, but I this list may contain people that might have come across this issue as well.
I have some code that runs in OSGi that uses javax.activation.DataHandler. As this is javax... you should be able to provide your own bundle providing these classes. So I have a bundle that provides an alternative javax.activation.DataHandler. Now it turns out that this class has a dependency on java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor, a java.awt class! The DataFlavor code is kicked in from DataHandler, but then DataFlavor tries to load some classes too, in my case it tries to load DataHandler again. The code in DataFlavor tries to load classes from the System Classloader first, so it finds the javax.activation.DataHandler in the JRE and loads that -> boom LinkageError. I was wondering whether there are any 'fixed' versions of javax.activation that don't expose this behaviour and work properly in a modular environment like OSGi. Many thanks, David
