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Warning, it will print out *a lot* of information, that's why you need $ eclipse -debug debug.osgi >osgi_log.txt 2>&1Īnd any other options that seem to indicate classloading or package access. Something else you can try is to run with OSGi debugging information. When you check the bundles from the OSGi console, can you see the linkīetween your bundle that uses JBoss classes and your library (external:) Your bundle will be activated and loaded correctly.Īre there any errors or exceptions thrown during activation? AnĮxception during bundle activation would kill that bundle, and from then Then the first time another bundle tries to access one of your classes, > and then saw the external entries getting added to cpEntries.
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So I forced it to load by calling it's Activator > After debugging into addClassPathEntry, I found that the library plugin Dprop=/location to handle the install location of the 3rd party jar on Then it will be correctly read into the system (Iĭon't believe you can effect the change in the existing bundle while theĮxternal: can take a property that can be passed in through Represents your 3rd party plugin, and have *that* contain the What you need to do is provide it as a separate existing plugin that > modify its Manifest by adding the jar file as "external:" to the > I also tried to stop the plugin from the outside (another plugin), Restrictions because I would not deliver the file.īut I still wonder if there is no simple way to achieve my rather I think that would not violate the license But this method is only available in the URLClassloader notĪnother thing I thought about was to copy the jar file during startup Private "addUrl" method of the ClassLoader as written in some Yet another approach was to use reflection to get access to the
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Modify its Manifest by adding the jar file as "external:" to theīundle-Classpath and start it again. I also tried to stop the plugin from the outside (another plugin), Tried to set the contextClassLoader, too, without success. Automatic loading was not workingīecause always the DefaultClassLoader was used, not the new one. Java class explicitly, but that does not resolve the loading problems
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I tried to use my own class loader (URLClassLoader) but couldn'tįigure out how to make that approach working. Is not used outside of my plugin and therefore has not to be visible Jar file, but I don't know how to add it to the plugin's classpath. During runtime I'm able find the location of the The location of this file may varyĭepending on where the user installs the 3dparty software in his One of my eclipse plugin (eclipse version 3.6.2) depends on anĮxternal jar file which I may not include in my package because it's