Robin- To be clear, (and it's important to note that I haven't tried this approach recently), the current restlet core module does come with a BundleActivator registered in the manifest, you can see the code at org.restlet.engine.internal.Activator.java, and it's designed to do roughly what it seems you're asking for, which is that it provides an osgi-flavored version of restlet's extension scanning. To use it you'd have to make sure that the restlet bundle is not just installed but also started before your client-code bundle (and any extension modules would have to be installed but not necessarily started before your bundle). In simple cases this should work, and the restlet folks would probably consider it a bug if it doesn't at least do what's advertised. My point in past messages is that I'd prefer a different solution. I'm sure that Jerome and the other folks won't ship a final 2.0 that isn't usable out of the box in at least some manner by OSGi users. They've already done much more than most projects do to be OSGi-friendly!
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