Hi All, I am trying to use Karaf with equinox and ran into a very strange classloading issue yesterday.
Here is a situation: 1. Stock karaf with FELIX-1150 ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1150) applied (upgrade to Spring 2.5.6.SEC01 and SpringDM 1.2.0) and config.properties modified to point to equinox (i.e. karaf.framework=equinox) 2. Bundle "datasource" wraps h2database and c3p0 and publishes a DataSource 3. Bundle "hibernate" is session factory producing bundle. It publishes SessionFactory and Spring PlatformTransactionManager using SpringDM. 4. All of the supporting spring libraries (transaction, orm, etc) and hibernate (pulled from BRITS) and supporting java spec bundles are also deployed. When deploying those two bundles I was constantly getting a CNF on org.hibernate.JDBCException in Karaf from bundle . Those bundles were working just fine with Pax Runner. I thought that it was a problem with my bundles. I tried everything, modified imports, tried require bundle (with reexport and without), finally tried Dynamic import = *. Still I was getting a CNF. I finally reconfigured Karaf to use: 1. org.eclipse.osgi.services-3.2.0.v20090429.jar vs. org/apache/felix/org.osgi.compendium/${felix.compendium.version}/org.osgi.compendium-${felix.compendium.version}.jar 2. org.eclipse.osgi.util-3.2.0.v20090429.jar because PAX runner uses it in minimal equinox configuraiton. Now everything seems to work. So I have a solution for my issue, but I still don't have a "WHY" this issue came up. Can anyone think of a "WHY"? Is it an isseu with Compendium services used in stock Karaf? I am willing to submit my changes as a patch but I would like to discuss this a little more to get it right. I have a pax-construct project that generates required dependencies and bundles in question for testing if anyone is interested in trying this. Thanks in advance Dmitry
