We have an app where we are using an embedded felix instance to deploy plugin functionality. Our bundles contain implementations of a publically knnown interface, and also contain a properties file with the class names to load. When the bundle is loaded, we look at the properties file, load the Class from the classfile, and pass around the reference to that Class (just the Class, not an instance of it) in our application.
We're seeing a StreamCorruptedException in our application, and after some serious debugging cannot figure out where it's coming from. My theory is that we accidentally serialized the object holding on to the osgi-loaded class into a disk-based cache, and the exception is occurring because the ObjectInputStream can't load that class with the web container's classloader when it tries to deserialize it. Question: Does it make sense that ObjectInputStream would have trouble deserializing an instance of java.lang.Class? I'm not sure if deserializing the Class object actually requires that the class be loaded from a classloader or not. If it did require classloading, then I could understand the exception, since the servlet container's classloader wouldn't know about the class. Thanks in advance for any help...
