Achim, thank you for your reply. In fact, I have tried deploying my application using just features, no KAR, and, indeed, was able to make it deploy without errors. However, I can't 100% pin-point and consistently recreate the sequence of steps required to get it to work. I wipe out the Data folder, start from the clean slate, and sometimes it works, sometimes it gives me the same error. One thing I know, the only times when it actually worked, I used Spring 3.2.4.RELEASE (as the provided dependency for my application bundles), manually uninstalled the Spring 4.0.2.RELEASE_1 feature and installed Spring 3.2.4.RELEASE in Karaf. At this point, I am sure I can eventually figure out how to manually deploy everything, it is just too frustrating that I have to spend more time on fighting with Karaf than on the development of my application. Makes me think that it totally defeats the purpose of using Karaf/OSGi, in the first place...
Nevertheless, even if I can deploy my features with manual Karaf config tweaking, that's not going to satisfy my Prod requirements. The Prod environment has no access to any public or local Maven repositories, and it is desirable to have a self-contained archive that an admin would drop into the container and "forget about it". So, I would really like to understand which core Karaf features must be available and activated (and which must be disabled, if any) to ensure that my [fairly simple] Camel/Spring 4.0.2/Spring-DM application deploys as a KAR without the above errors. Note that the error states: *Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium] * It seems as if some Spring bundle(s) are not being started properly, even although I explicitly install spring/spring-dm features and see that the features are marked with "x" (installed). I don't see any spring bundles in the bundles 'list', but that's ok, right? -- View this message in context: http://karaf.922171.n3.nabble.com/Spring-4-0-2-and-spring-dm-tp4033093p4033115.html Sent from the Karaf - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
