Hi, I play around with class loaders a bit and stumbled upon the following issue: Bundle.loadClass is implemented internally by the Felix.loadBundleClass method. This method in turn delegates to current module of the bundle to get the class. If the module returns null, i.e. cannot find the class, a ClassNotFoundException is thrown as expected. In addition a FrameworkEvent.ERROR is fired.
According to the comment, the FrameworkEvent.ERROR is required by the spec. I understand the spec in the sense, that the FrameworkEvent.ERROR is required if the bundle needs to be resolved and resolving the bundle fails. So in the case of a resolved bundle not finding the class, a FrameworkEvent.ERROR is not fired. On the other hand, the R4SearchPolicyCore.findClassOrResource method called to find the class or resource checks and resolves the bundle and simply throws a ClassNotFoundException. Probably, the FrameworkEvent.ERROR should be thrown here ? What do you think ? Regards and thanks Felix
