Hi all, One of the problems I've ran into while working on jasper/myfaces is lookup on META-INF resources via context ClassLoader (Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()). That obviously breaks under OSGi as the context classloader may not be set or may be set to the application classloader that does not see the expected META-INF resources. I think we will need to deal with this problem somehow in Geronimo because we can't realistically fix all the dependent libraries or applications to do the right thing from OSGi perspective. In Equinox there is ContextFinder classloader and Buddy Policy (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Context_Class_Loader_Enhancements) to help deal with these context ClassLoader issues. I think we will need something similar in Geronimo. Maybe for example, we could use the environment information that we build for each application to configure the classloader with the right buddy policy. That is, the environment information would describe in some way (symbolic names, package imports, etc.) which bundles to delegate to when looking up META-INF resources via the context ClassLoader.
Jarek
