Can you manually set the class path in your bundle to pick up your
classes first?

I know that's a bit of a hack around, but if it works at least you can
continue on...

Cheers,
Jamie

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM, David Bosschaert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess what I'm looking for is a bundle that I can install in an OSGi
> framework without having to change any startup properties etc...
>
> On 21 April 2015 at 14:39, Jamie G. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great question.
>>
>> Can you override/replace it via the karaf etc/jre.properties file?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jamie
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:53 AM, David Bosschaert
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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

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