Hi Richard,
I did what you said and it worked.
I put the javax.swing in the org.osgi.framework.system.packages and accessed
it from my bundle importing the javax.swing.
I used that lib from the Java, but I think is the same for other libs.
I´ll continue doing this for the other libs.
My application sometimes has to have access to the packages and sometimes
not. It was very good to mention that because now I know how to take the
direction into my implementation: making a bundle with the lib and exporting
all the packages or accessing that directly from the classpath exporting and
importing the package to use inside my bundle.
Thanks.
Regards,
Ivo K. Koga
On 10/24/06, Richard S. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ivo Koga wrote:
> I was already registered to the felix-dev mailing list and I tried to
> send the e-mail to the list. Did u receive the message? I am copying
> this to the mailing list, hope it arrives there.
It looks like the original message was delayed.
> Following your consideration number 3. I looked into the
> conf/config.properties file and I saw this:
>
> org.osgi.framework.system.packages=org.osgi.framework; version=1.3.0, \
> org.osgi.service.packageadmin ; version=1.2.0, \
> org.osgi.service.startlevel; version=1.0.0, \
> org.osgi.service.url; version=1.0.0, \
> ${jre-${java.specification.version}}
>
> So I have to put my lib jar file into that or all the packages that I
> need to import?
> How I can do this?
You have to put your libs onto the class path (e.g., java -classpath
mylib.jar ...). On the property above, you just put the packages that
you are exporting from the class path.
I assume you want to do it this way because you are embedding Felix into
another application and your host application needs to access the libs
too. If so, then this makes sense. However, if your host application
does not need to access these libraries, then it is better if you can
put these libraries in bundles and export the packages. Then you can
control the libraries' entire life cycle dynamically through the
framework.
-> richard
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivo K. Koga
>
>
>
> On 10/23/06, *Richard S. Hall* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> You have three options:
>
> 1. Embed the JAR files into each bundle that needs them (this
> works
> if there is no sharing).
> 2. Create separate bundles for each JAR file and have them
> export all
> of their packages (this allows bundles to share the packages).
> 3. Put the JAR files on the class path and export them from the
> system bundle. The way you do this is to edit the
> 'org.osgi.framework.system.packages' property in the
> conf/config.properties files to export the packages you want
to
> make visible, then your bundles can import those packages to
> use them.
>
> There is no way to reference external JAR files directly on a
bundle's
> class path.
>
> -> richard
>
> Ivo Koga wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > No, I was trying to use that lib that is outside Felix. I have
many
> > libs like that and I want to use it inside the bundle.
> >
> > That libs are for accessing databases (jdbc), reading xml (jdom),
> > making a chart (jfreechart) and others.
> >
> > So, all these libs have to be inside my bundle jar?
> >
> > I´ll post that question to the list.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Ivo K. Koga
> >
> > On 10/22/06, * Richard S. Hall* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>
wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like a packaging issue.
> >
> > Does your bundle JAR file contain lib/jdom-1.0 /jdom.jar? If
not
> > you need to make sure you are including it inside the bundle
> JAR file.
> >
> > Also, perhaps I mentioned it before, but dynamically importing
*
> > is generally not a good idea.
> >
> > Feel free to subscribe to the felix-dev mailing list and post
> > these types of questions since you might get other input and
> other
> > people can learn from your questions too.
> >
> > -> richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From: "Ivo Koga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>
> > Subj: Third party libs/jar in Felix
> > Date: Sun 22. Oct 2006 14:27
> > Size: 469 bytes
> > To: "Richard S. Hall" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I was trying to use some libs that are outside the Felix,
> but did
> > not have
> > success yet.
> >
> > What I already did is to put in the manifest.mf file this:
> >
> > Bundle-Classpath: .,lib/jdom-1.0/jdom.jar
> > DynamicImport-Package: *
> >
> > But what I got is:
> >
> > "INFO: Class path entry not found: lib/jdom-1.0/jdom.jar"
> >
> > and a Exception:
> >
> > "JarContent: java.util.zip.ZipException " saying that it
cannot
> > find the
> > specified path
> >
> > hope you can help me again :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ivo K. Koga
> >
> >
> >
>
>
